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It becomes funny when you have people who's government has enriched themselves over atrocities worldwide, yet are making documentaries to judge other nations.
U.N. says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps
By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.”
Gay McDougall, a member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, cited estimates that 2 million Uighurs and Muslim minorities were forced into “political camps for indoctrination” in the western Xinjiang autonomous region.
“We are deeply concerned at the many numerous and credible reports that we have received that in the name of combating religious extremism and maintaining social stability (China) has changed the Uighur autonomous region into something that resembles a massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy, a sort of ‘no rights zone’,” she told the start of a two-day regular review of China’s record, including Hong Kong and Macao.
China has said that Xinjiang faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists who plot attacks and stir up tensions between the mostly Muslim Uighur minority who call the region home and the ethnic Han Chinese majority.
A Chinese delegation of some 50 officials made no comment on her remarks at the Geneva session that is scheduled to continue on Monday.
The allegations came from multiple sources, including activist group Chinese Human Rights Defenders, which said in a report last month that 21 percent of all arrests recorded in China in 2017 were in Xinjiang.
Earlier, Yu Jianhua, China’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, said it was working toward equality and solidarity among all ethnic groups.
But McDougall said that members of the Uighur community and other Muslims were being treated as “enemies of the state” solely on the basis of their ethno-religious identity.
More than 100 Uighur students who returned to China from countries including Egypt and Turkey had been detained, with some dying in custody, she said.
Yemhelhe Mint Mohamed, a panel member, referred to “arbitrary and mass detention of almost 1 million Uighurs” and asked the Chinese delegation, “What is the level of religious freedom available now to Uighurs in China, what legal protection exists for them to practice their religion?”
Panelists also raised reports of mistreatment of Tibetans in the autonomous region, including inadequate use of the Tibetan language in the classroom and at court proceedings.
“The U.N. body maintained its integrity, the government got a very clear message,” Golok Jigme, a Tibetan monk and former prisoner living in exile, told Reuters at the meeting.
Lanoforge Member # 23087
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China has one of the worse human rights violations record.
the lioness, Member # 17353
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quote:Originally posted by Ish Gebor: It becomes funny when you have people who's government has enriched themselves over atrocities worldwide, yet are making documentaries to judge other nations.
You will probably find your point of viewed expressed by certian people in this discussion held by George Galloway
quote:Originally posted by Ish Gebor: It becomes funny when you have people who's government has enriched themselves over atrocities worldwide, yet are making documentaries to judge other nations.
You will probably find your point of viewed expressed by certian people in this discussion held by George Galloway
So you are suggesting that my argument was invalid? lol
So explain how the West became this rich? Be very specific and detailed.
Ish Gebor Member # 18264
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quote:Originally posted by the lioness,:
quote:Originally posted by Ish Gebor: It becomes funny when you have people who's government has enriched themselves over atrocities worldwide, yet are making documentaries to judge other nations.
You will probably find your point of viewed expressed by certian people in this discussion held by George Galloway
So you are suggesting that my argument was invalid? lol
So explain how the West became this rich?
Marija Member # 23167
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How the West became rich is irrelevant to the topic of what China is doing to the Uighurs!
And to pretend that all "white" persons are represented by any Western government is ludicrous. There would not be so many whites oppressed and poor if that were the case.
China is notoriously racist, imposing a "Han" normalcy on all minority ethnicities from Tibetans to Yao to Uighur.
Any conscious person from anywhere, of any ethnicity, has the right to object to oppression of anyone anywhere. The validity of such criticism does not depend on the ethnicity of the person complaining!
China is a modern and very efficient police state, about which all peoples should be concerned.
Not immediately relevant, but interesting, is that a good part of the Uighurs' ancestry is Tocharian, people of the Tarim basin who trace back to the Yamnaya people of the western steppes.
Ish Gebor Member # 18264
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quote:Originally posted by Marija: How the West became rich is irrelevant to the topic of what China is doing to the Uighurs!
And to pretend that all "white" persons are represented by any Western government is ludicrous. There would not be so many whites oppressed and poor if that were the case.
China is notoriously racist, imposing a "Han" normalcy on all minority ethnicities from Tibetans to Yao to Uighur.
Any conscious person from anywhere, of any ethnicity, has the right to object to oppression of anyone anywhere. The validity of such criticism does not depend on the ethnicity of the person complaining!
China is a modern and very efficient police state, about which all peoples should be concerned.
Not immediately relevant, but interesting, is that a good part of the Uighurs' ancestry is Tocharian, people of the Tarim basin who trace back to the Yamnaya people of the western steppes.
"West became rich is irrelevant to the topic of what China is doing to the Uighurs!"
It's hard to criticize someone else, when your own deeds are equally if not more worse. It becomes somewhat of a gimmick.
the lioness, Member # 17353
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Marija has left Egyptsearch. If you want to know why look at the Capsian thread in Egyptology
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