U.S. slams China on human rights violations in Xinjiang, vows to carry Beijing accountable

Slamming China for its continued violation of human rights of minority communities in Xinjiang, Tibet and elsewhere within the nation, the US has vowed to work intently with its companions and the worldwide group to carry Beijing accountable for its abhorrent actions in opposition to its personal individuals.

Welcoming the damning U. N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Report on Xinjiang that was launched on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karen Jean-Pierre mentioned it deepened “our grave concern regarding the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity that China is perpetrating.”

“The United States welcomes this report — this important report, which describes authoritatively the abhorrent human rights treatment of the Uyghur and other minority communities by the People’s Republic of China government,” she mentioned throughout her every day information convention on Thursday.

The report mentioned China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and different principally Muslim ethnic teams within the western area of Xinjiang could represent crimes in opposition to humanity.

“Our position on the atrocities in Xinjiang has been clearly demonstrated with our words and in our actions,” Ms. Jean-Pierre mentioned.

Ensuring provide chains are free from use of compelled labour

The Biden administration has taken concrete measures and the President has rallied allies and companions, together with the G7, to make sure all international provide chains are free from using compelled labour together with from Xinjiang, she mentioned.

“We will continue to work closely with partners and the international community to hold China accountable, and we will call on China to immediately cease committing these atrocities, release those unjustly detained, account for those disappeared, and allow independent investigators full and unhindered access to Xinjiang, Tibet, and across China,” Ms. Jean-Pierre mentioned.

In an announcement, U. S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned that the August thirty first report by the U. N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights outlines in alarming particulars the human rights violations and abuses occurring in Xinjiang.

“This report deepens and reaffirms our grave concern regarding the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity that PRC government authorities are perpetrating against Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang,” he mentioned.

China slams Xinjiang report

In Beijing, the Chinese overseas ministry has criticised the much-awaited report by outgoing U. N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, who earlier visited Xinjiang after a protracted diplomatic tussle with Beijing, which had studiously opposed its launch.

“The so-called assessment is orchestrated and produced by the US and some western forces. It is completely illegal and null and void,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin advised a media briefing in Beijing on Thursday whereas slamming the report.

Ms. Bachelet, the previous President of Chile, who got here underneath immense stress, lastly brushed apart Beijing’s opposition and launched the report on the final day of her workplace on Wednesday, apparently minutes earlier than she bowed out of workplace.

The report, whereas falling wanting terming the allegation of human rights abuse of Uygur Muslims of Xinjiang as genocide as alleged by the US and western international locations, mentioned the fees could represent “crimes against humanity,” which can critically dent Beijing’s defence of its crackdown within the resource-rich Xinjiang – the house for over 10 million Turkic talking Uygur Muslims who oppose giant scale Han Chinese settlements within the area to dilute their majority standing.

It has referred to as for an pressing worldwide response over allegations of torture and different rights violations in Beijing’s marketing campaign to root out terrorism in Xinjiang.

Evidence of torture

The report mentioned it discovered proof of torture in detention camps described by China as vocational coaching centres and pointed to “unusual” and “coercive” authorities actions, resulting in a starkly plunging delivery fee in Xinjiang.

It additionally mentioned China performed “coercive family planning policies enforced by strict measures, such as fines, referrals and threats of referral to [Vocational Education and Training Centres] or other detention facilities, in breach of reproductive rights during the period 2017-2019”.

It beneficial “urgent action” by the Chinese authorities, the UN and the “international community more broadly” to handle the human rights scenario in Xinjiang.

The report comes 4 years after a committee of UN specialists referred to as consideration in August 2018 to “credible reports” that greater than 1 million Uygur and different Muslim minority peoples have been interned in extrajudicial camps in Xinjiang for “re-education” and indoctrination.

China has repeatedly defended its crackdown within the restive area of Xinjiang, saying the transfer is geared toward containing the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) which is allegedly linked to radical outfits like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.

China has additionally been accused of finishing up a marketing campaign of sinicization of Islam which broadly meant bringing it in tune with the insurance policies of the ruling Communist Party.