Despite enormous pressure from Beijing, the UN has finally released its long-awaited report on human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region. Crimes against humanity may have been committed in the region, according to the United Nations.
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Shock report from the UN. The United Nations published on Wednesday August 31 its long-awaited report on human rights violations in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, where the Uyghur minority is persecuted. According to this report, “serious violations” of human rights have been committed in this region and the accusations of torture, sexual violence in Xinjiang “are credible”.
“The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim groups…may amount to international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.”
The UN believes that the situation in the region requires attention “urgent” of the international community.
the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, of which Michelle Bachelet left the management on Wednesday, has therefore published this report in extremis despite pressure from Beijing. After a series of attacks attributed to Islamists or Uyghur separatists from 2009 to 2014, the Chinese region is the subject of intense surveillance. Western studies, based on interpretations of official documents, testimonies of alleged victims and statistical extrapolations, accuse Beijing of having interned in “camps” at least a million people, mostly Uyghurs, of carrying out sterilizations and abortions “strengths” or to impose “forced labor”.
The contents of this report have so far been well guarded. The US government had accused Beijing of “genocide” in Xinjiang. In January, the French National Assembly, following in the footsteps of the representation of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and even Canada, had also described “genocide” China’s treatment of Uyghurs. Beijing has continued to repeat all the evil it thought of this report before its publication. “The so-called Xinjiang problem is a totally fabricated and politically motivated lie”which hinders the development of China, had assured the Chinese ambassador Zhang Jun.