Human rights: UN begins visit to Xinjiang, China

This journey takes place almost behind closed doors, the UN delegation is required to combine, in the name of the epidemic situation in China, a health bubble that keeps it away from foreign journalism.

No details on the specific places Michelle Bachelet will visit have been made public, raising questions about the true latitude she will have on earth.

Concerned, Uighurs in the diaspora and human rights associations are urging the 70 -year -old former Chilean president not to be taken in a propaganda operation by the communist regime.

Xinjiang, which has long been plagued by attacks linked to separatists and Uyghur Islamists, has for years been the subject of repression carried out in the name of anti-terrorism.

Western studies accuse China of interning at least a million Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities there in re-education camps, and even of imposition forced labor at forced sterilization.

Washington accuses Beijing of committing a genocide. China denounced lies of the century and presents camps as vocational training centersaimed at combating religious extremism.

Beijing said it does not impose any sterilization, but only applies the birth control policy to the area nationwide, which previously little was done in the region.

Currently Tuesday and Wednesday in Xinjiang, which is home to 26 million inhabitants, almost half of whom are Uyghurs, Michelle Bachelet will notably visit the regional capital Urumqi.

In 2014, an attack against civilians killed about 40 people there. The riots in 2009 resulted in the deaths of nearly 200 people, mostly Han (the majority ethnic group in China) being beaten or stabbed by Uyghurs.

Ms. will also go. Bachelet in Kashgar, in southern Xinjiang, where the Uyghur population is very large and where the security campaign is known to be particularly fierce.

I hope he asks the Chinese government where my mother isJevlan Shirememet, a 31-year-old Uighur living in Turkey, told AFP and said he had heard nothing from him in four years.

Nursimangul Abdureshid, a Uyghur living in Turkey, said he was not there there is not much hope which visitors from the United Nations can do make any changes.

They had to visit the victims, like my family members, not to participate in the pre-prepared scenes. of Beijing, he told AFP.

His brother was sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison, primarily for preparation (of) violent and terrorist actshe discovered recently in a database disclosed by the AFP and believed to have come from a leak of a police archive.

If the UN team does not have unlimited access to Xinjiang, I will not accept their so -called reportssaid Nursimangul Abdureshid.

However, China has clearly stated its goals.

In a one-on-one Monday with Michelle Bachelet, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi expressed hope that her stay would help to clarify misinformation in his country, according to his ministry.

We hope that this visit will allow you to get to the bottom of things, to discuss facts and facts, to silence rumors and lies.he pointed out.

Michelle Bachelet is the first UN human rights official to visit China since 2005, after years of negotiations in Beijing on the terms of her visit to Xinjiang.

Mrs Bachelet must understand that what is at stake is the world’s trust in the United Nationssaid Raphael David of the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR).

In a videoconference on Monday with representatives of foreign embassies, the former Chilean president assured that he would go to detention centers, diplomatic sources told AFP.

To increase pressure on the UN delegation, a consortium of foreign media released a series of documents on Tuesday allegedly derived from hacking local police computers.

These include thousands of photos, including identity photos, shown as taken on detention camps of the region and shows the face of many detaineesincluding teenagers and adults.