International hotel chains IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), Hilton, Marriott, Hyatt, and Wyndham have all operated in occupied East Turkistan, which has been denounced by the East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE), which claims that the Chinese government is waging a systematic campaign of colonisation and genocide.

According to the ETGE, these companies are not operating ignorantly. They are constructing and running hotels in areas controlled by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), a colonial and paramilitary group that has been sanctioned by the US, UK, Canada, and EU for its crucial role in implementing China’s colonial and genocidal policies, according to an ETGE release.

By participating in the Chinese state-led expansion of “tourism,” these companies are tarnishing the image of a dictatorship that is deliberately seeking to destroy a whole nation, according to an ETGE statement.

At least 115 hotels with global names are located in East Turkistan, and another 74 are either planned or already under construction, according a recent inquiry. These traits are embedded inside the system of repression rather than being outside of it, as the ETGE publication made clear.

According to an ETGE statement, the Chinese State and Chinese Communist Party have intentionally desecrated a number of mosques, cemeteries, and other sacred cultural sites in an attempt to eradicate East Turkistan’s identity, history, and religion. As a result, several hotels have been built on the sites of these sites.

It is remarkable how serious and widespread the crimes occurring in East Turkistan are. Millions of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples have been imprisoned in prisons and concentration camps.

Hundreds of thousands of women have been subjected to forced sterilisation. According to the ETGE report, more than a million Uyghur children have been removed from their families and placed in state-run indoctrination centres.

ETGE estimates that China’s “organ harvesting operations” murder between 25,000 and 50,000 Uyghurs per year. The Chinese occupying government has destroyed nearly 16,000 mosques and other cultural sites, wiping out centuries of East Turkistani heritage.

“International corporations are not neutral observers; they are active collaborators when they operate in occupied territory, on stolen land, and over the graves of our history,” said Mamtimin Ala, the president of the East Turkistan Government in Exile.

“These businesses need to realise that no amount of legal wrangling or branding can absolve them of moral responsibility. Our people’s pain is soaked up in their profits. Al was reported by ETGE as adding, “And history will not forget their betrayal.”
Rather than being symbols of progress, these hotel buildings are monuments to complicity.

The ETGE statement claims that they convey to the world that genocide can be made commercial, that sacred sites can be converted into hotels, and that luxury branding may mask a nation’s suffering.

Under Chinese colonial control, the East Turkistan Government in Exile underlined that the genocide could not be stopped. It said, “There can be no justice, no dignity, and no lasting peace for our people while our homeland remains occupied.”

All foreign businesses doing business in East Turkistan were urged by the ETGE to immediately stop operations. It called on nations, international organisations, and morally upright individuals worldwide to reject the normalisation of genocide and to combat those who benefit from atrocities.