Published 12:45 IST, October 7th 2020

China's UN envoy refutes Xinjiang accusations after own admission of internment camps

China's Permanent Representative to the UN strongly refuted 'unwarranted accusations' by US & other countries against China's human rights abuses in Xinjiang

Reported by: Ananya Varma
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China's Permanent Representative to United Nations on Tuesday strongly refuted 'unwarranted accusations' by United States and or countries against China's human rights abuses in Xinjiang. China's duplicity in United Nations comes days after its own mission where Communist country accepted death of an Uyghur Muslim who h been held in one of detention camps in Xinjiang in 2017 and h gone missing ever since. 

While dressing UN, China's Permanent Representative to United Nations Zhang Jun opposed criticism of China’s "internal affairs", hitting out at US over "racism and police brutality." "We also express our deep concern over health situation of migrants at immigration detention centres in certain countries that reflects a contemporary form of racial discrimination," he said.
 

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China accepts death of Uyghur man 

Chinese government on October 2 formally accepted to UN, death of an Uyghur man, whose family believe h been held in a Xinjiang internment camp since 2017. Uyghur man’s disappearance was registered with United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) in April 2019, but CCP did t respond to formal inquiries until September this year. In a statement to WGEID, China said retired driver named Abdulghafur Hapiz from Kashgar h died almost two years ago, on vember 3, 2018, due to severe pneumonia and tuberculosis.

Over one million people from Uyghur and Turkish Muslim communities in western Xinjiang have been allegedly detained in camps since 2017, under a systematic crackdown on ethnic mirities which world leers have termed as cultural gecide.

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Several leaked documents from China have revealed Beijing’s brutal and systematic crackdown on Uyghurs, in which y have called it a “struggle against terrorism, infiltration and separatism”. After Uyghur militants stabbed more than 150 people at a train station in 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a series of speeches delivered to officials, urged party to follow America’s policy of “war on terror”.

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12:45 IST, October 7th 2020