Germany takes initiative as 39 UN members pan China over Xinjiang & Tibet; US & UK join in

More trouble and embarrassment are on ir way towards China over its widespre human rights violations especially in Xinjiang and Tibet against ethnic and religious mirities. 

A cross-regional group of 39 United Nations member countries issued a stinging public rebuke on Tuesday on Chinese Communist Party's nefarious policies in two so-called automous regions and expressed grave concern at impact of its new national security law on human rights in Hong Kong.

United States, Japan, many European countries, and ors called on China to allow ''unfettered access'' to Xinjiang for independent observers including UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet and to urgently refrain from detaining Uighurs and members of or mirities.

39 countries also urged China in a joint statement re at a meeting of General Assembly's human rights committee, to ''uphold automy, rights, and freedoms in Hong Kong, and to respect independence of Hong Kong judiciary.''

“We are gravely concerned about human rights situation in Xinjiang and recent developments in Hong Kong,” German Ambassor Christoph Heusgen said in a statement on behalf of group to UN General Assembly’s Third Committee. “We call on China to respect human rights.”

Supporters of Germany-led statement includes Britain, Cana, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Haiti, Honduras, Palau, United States, many European Union member states, Albania, and Marshall Islands.

joint statement endorses an unprecedented appeal from 50 UN human rights experts for creation of a UN mechanism for monitoring human rights in China. A recent global civil society appeal from over 400 organisations echoed experts’ call.

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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.

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”.

(Im credit: AP)

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