China's ambassador to UK denies human rights violations of Uighurs despite drone footage

China’s ambassador to UK brazenly denied human right violations of Uighur Muslims living in Xinjiang region after he was confronted with drone foot of hundreds of blindfolded prisoners being led from a train. In an interview with international broadcaster, China’s envoy Liu Xiaoming insisted that Uighurs live in peaceful and harmonious coexistence with or ethnic groups, adding re are  concentration camps in Xinjiang.

In video, originally posted by an anymous YouTube account named ‘War on Fear’, hundreds of blindfolded men can be seen sitting in courtyard outside a train station with ir heads shaved and hands tied behind ir back. y were n escorted by police officers in SWAT uniform to some or location which has t been captured in video.

Liu said that he had idea what video was showing and he tried to project it as a regular transfer of prisoners. It is believed that China has detained hundreds of Uighur Muslims over past few years in what y call “re-education camps”. China had earlier denied existence of such camps but later defended it as a measure against terrorism.

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Leaked documents tell a different story

Last year, classified documents from within Communist Party were leaked to International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, revealing China’s crackdown on Uighurs and use of artificial intelligence to monitor se communities in China and abroad. Or internal documents of Chinese government revealed directives of President Xi Jinping to “show absolutely mercy” on Uighur Muslims, in “struggle against terrorism, infiltration and separatism”.

Amid worsening UK-China relationship over Hong Kong and Huawei 5G, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has accused Beijing "gross and egregious" human rights abuses against Uighurs. He told British news channel that reports of forced sterilisation and persecution of ethnic mirities were “reminiscent of something t seen for a long time”.

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