In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party has detained millions of Uyghurs in re-education camps in Xinjiang, which has been condemned by the international community.
Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom will host a conference on Xinjiang via video on December 12, focusing on the persecution of Uighurs and other minorities in the Xinjiang region. The Chinese Communist Party issued a notice at the United Nations discouraging member states from participating.
On June 7, Reuters obtained a copy of an announcement issued by the Chinese Communist Party’s representative to the United Nations on June 6, asking member states not to participate in a conference in Xinjiang next week. The Chinese Communist Party claimed that it was a “politically motivated” event and asked member states not to attend such anti-communist events.
The Communist Party also accused the host country of using human rights issues as a political tool to interfere in the internal affairs of the Communist Party and to create divisions and unrest to undermine the Communist Party’s development.
The Xinjiang conference is co-organized by the United States, Britain, Germany, Australia and Canada. The U.S., British and German ambassadors will speak via video on the 12th, and participants include Ken Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, and Agnes Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty International.
The event focused on how the UN system, member states and civil society can help and support human rights for the Uighur people in Xinjiang.
Louis Charbonneau, executive director of UN Human Rights Watch, criticized Beijing’s long-standing tactic of bullying other governments to silence them, a strategy that has failed as more and more countries have come forward to denounce the crimes committed by the Chinese Communist Party against the Uighurs.
Millions of Uighurs in concentration camps
Xinjiang is home to 25 million people and there are reportedly some 1,200 concentration camps in the region, where millions of Uighurs are being held.
As early as November 24, 2019, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and partner media published an investigative report detailing the forced brainwashing of Uyghurs in heavily guarded “concentration camps” in Xinjiang, where they were forced to give up their ethnic language and way of thinking.
According to the report, the CCP has detained more than 1 million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other religious minorities in this manner over the past three years.
Information gathered by satellite found that there are some 1,200 concentration camps in the Xinjiang region, where millions of Uighurs are being held.
Before former U.S. President Donald Trump left office, the State Department characterized the Communist government’s treatment of Uighurs and other Muslims as “genocide.
Canada’s House of Commons also passed a non-binding motion on February 22 that deemed Beijing’s policy toward Muslims in Xinjiang as “genocide.
On March 22, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Canada, Australia and New Zealand joined forces to sanction Chinese officials and institutions over the Xinjiang issue on the same day.
On March 23, the governments of Australia and New Zealand also issued a joint statement supporting the sanctions, expressing deep concern about the CCP’s violations of the human rights of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities, and emphasizing that the evidence of the CCP’s human rights violations is overwhelming.
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