{"id":4292,"date":"2018-10-27T09:40:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/10\/27\/china-forcing-uyghur-muslims-re-education-camps-violation-rights-says-un\/"},"modified":"2018-10-27T09:40:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:40:43","slug":"china-forcing-uyghur-muslims-re-education-camps-violation-rights-says-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/china-forcing-uyghur-muslims-re-education-camps-violation-rights-says-un\/","title":{"rendered":"China forcing Uyghur Muslims into \u2018re-education camps\u2019, violation of rights, says UN"},"content":{"rendered":"

China has turned its northwestern province of Xinjiang into a \u201cno-rights zone\u201d and a \u201cmassive internment camp\u201d for the Muslim Uyghur community, a United Nations meeting on human rights was told.<\/span><\/p>\n

The issue of the treatment of Uyghurs was raised at the UN meeting by Gay McDougall, vice-chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, who said she was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d by reports from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) that the Uyghurs were being sent to re-education camps in the name of fighting religious extremism.<\/span><\/p>\n

China is yet to officially respond to the allegations. According to reports, China\u2019s lead representative to the committee, Yu Jianhua, said he would respond on Monday. \u201cWe have taken careful notes,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The province, China\u2019s largest and where Uyghurs make up about 45 <\/span>per cent<\/span> of the population, is designated as an autonomous region, like Tibet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Multiple news reports from the province and abroad have said that hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs have been packed off to camps to \u201cre-educated\u201d in the past several months.<\/span><\/p>\n

In many cases, Uyghur families have been separated after family members, often <\/span>males,<\/span> were sent to the camps.<\/span><\/p>\n

McDougall put on record her concerns after reading reports that China had \u201cturned the [Xinjiang] Uyghur Autonomous Region into something that resembles a massive internment camp\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some Uyghurs were being \u201ctreated as enemies of the state based solely on their <\/span>ethno-religious<\/span> identity,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are deeply concerned at the many numerous and credible reports that we have received that in the name of combating religious extremism and maintaining social stability (China) has changed the Uyghur autonomous region into something that resembles a massive internship camp that is shrouded in secrecy, a sort of \u2018no rights zone,\u201d McDougall was quoted by Reuters as saying at the start of a two-day meeting on China.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll of these detainees have had their due-process rights violated. Most have never been charged with an <\/span>offence<\/span>, tried in a court of law or afforded an opportunity to challenge the illegality of their detention. Many just disappear. Their relatives never know what happened to them,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

McDougall said at least two million were in the camps but did not back it up by mentioning the source.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the BBC, in April, Laura Stone, a senior diplomat in the US State Department, said tens of thousands of people had been detained in \u201cre-education <\/span>centres<\/span>\u201d amid a government crackdown.<\/span><\/p>\n

China\u2019s ministry of foreign affairs (MFA) spokesperson had responded by saying that \u201ceveryone can see that people of all ethnicities in Xinjiang live and work in peace and contentment and enjoy peaceful and progressing lives\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Chinese government has consistently blamed Islamic extremists for carrying out violent attacks targeting government offices and police stations in Xinjiang.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cXinjiang might be sparsely populated, but Beijing has made tremendous strides to develop northwestern China and the results appear remarkable,\u201d a state media report said last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cThe regional GDP (gross domestic product) has enjoyed an average annual increase – 9.3 percent from 2012 to 2016; RMB752.9bn (US$114bn) – 2012, to RMB 965bn (US$140bn) \u2013 2016,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: Hindustan Times<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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