China Committed ‘Serious Human Rights Violations’ In Uyghur Concentration Camps: UN Report | Eastern North Carolina Now

The UN Commission on Human Rights released a stunning report on Wednesday alleging that human rights abuses China has committed against the Uyghur minority population may constitute “crimes against humanity.”

ENCNow
    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Michael Whittaker.

    The UN Commission on Human Rights released a stunning report on Wednesday alleging that human rights abuses China has committed against the Uyghur minority population may constitute "crimes against humanity."

    The 48-page report outlines allegations leveled against the Chinese Communist Party for years by numerous journalists, governments, and international organizations. The Uyghurs, an Islamic, Turkic-speaking minority in China's remote northwestern frontier, have been reportedly subjected to arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence, and forced labor.

    "Despite well-documented evidence of state-sponsored torture and the intended destruction of the entire Uyghur ethnic groups through massive concentration camps, physical and mental torture, slave labor, massive displacement, enforced sterilization to prevent population growth and separation of children from their parents, the U.N. report came short of calling the crime by name," Mehmet Tohti, executive director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, told The New York Times.

    The UN first began receiving reports of abuse at the end of 2017, and the report cites 40 interviews with witnesses of the atrocities, 26 of whom reportedly spent time in a Uyghur internment camp. China initially denied the existence of the camps, and when that became impossible, Beijing characterized them as "vocational training centers" meant to combat "extremism."

    The Chinese mission to the UN released a 122-page counter condemning the UN's decision to release their report.

    "This so called 'assessment' ... ignores the human rights achievements made together by people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang and the devastating damage caused by terrorism and extremism to the human rights of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang," the Chinese mission said.

    The CCP has been increasingly aggressive in its censorship of foreign media, using its iron grip on the highly coveted Chinese market to compel American corporations like Disney and the NBA to kowtow to the party line.

    While the UN report was condemnatory in its language, it did not go so far as to call the ongoing campaign of repression a genocide, despite the widespread demolition of Uyghur mosques, restrictions on the speaking and teaching the Uyghur language, forced abortions of Uyghur children and the drastic and demonstrable drop in Uyghur birth rates.

    "It is imperative that nations take this report and make concrete steps toward stopping these crimes against humanity and holding China accountable for them," Rushan Abbas, a Uyghur American activist said.

    Abbas previously worked as a translator for the US Department of Defense, and after he began speaking out his sister was reportedly sentenced to 20 years in prison by the Chinese government. Chinese authorities have been accused of taking reprisals against the relatives of whistleblowers and foreign critics.

    For some Uyghurs, the report is too little, too late. Mukerrem Abitoglu, who fled to Turkey from China with her youngest daughter 5 years ago, told Reuters, "China kills our young people, leaves our children orphaned so what [the United Nations] do now is not enough."
Go Back


Leave a Guest Comment

Your Name or Alias
Your Email Address ( your email address will not be published)
Enter Your Comment ( no code or urls allowed, text only please )




New Report May Reveal Reason Behind Tom Brady’s Mysterious Two-Week ‘Personal’ Absence Daily Wire, Guest Editorial, Editorials, Op-Ed & Politics NC child sexual groomer organization endorses Beasley, others


HbAD0

Latest Op-Ed & Politics

We don't recommend that you "just vote." We recommend you vote right.
"She’s trying to con the public like she did a good job at the border when, in fact, she has destroyed the very fabric of our Nation..."
no wonder FEMA has done such a poor job on relief from this hurricane.
Another case of "be careful what you wish for," you may just get it

HbAD1

This election comes down to what kind of government we want, capitalism or communism
Please remember them in your prayers and do what you can to help them
border czar is letting criminals into country, and not deporting them
would shut all ports on east coast and gulf coast - lead to shortages and price increases

HbAD2

 
Back to Top