The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Saturday in China, condemned “arbitrary” measures targeting Muslims in Xinjiang. However, these remarks were deemed too loose by Uighur activists and defense organizations.
At an online press conference organized at the end of her stay in the country, Michelle Bachelet recalled that her visit, which did not include the foreign press, did not constitute. not investigation.
According to him, this six-day stay allows him to talk franchise communist leaders for suppressing Xinjiang in the name of counter-terrorism.
Words deemed too sympathetic by the World Uighur Congress, an organization of exiles based in Germany and considered separatist by Beijing.
If a high commissioner for human rights remains silent, it is because he has failed in his duties, he criticized in a press release. Resignation was the only meaningful thing he could do.
This region of China has long been the scene of bloody attacks targeting civilians carried out, according to authorities, by separatists and Uighur Islamists-the main ethnic group in the region.
Thus, Xinjiang has been under strict surveillance for several years.
Western studies accuse Beijing of interning more than a million Uighurs and members of other Muslim ethnic groups re -education campsor even impose forced labor or some forced sterilization. The United States, in part, refers to a genocide.
China denounces biased reports and speculation vocational training centers aims to create jobs and eliminate extremism. He denies everything forced sterilizationit simply says to apply national birth control policy.
Human rights associations and members of the Uighur diaspora have accused Beijing of being caught up in its anti -terrorism campaign with no crime.
According to them, Uighurs were interned on the sole basis of alleged extremism, because of a beard that was too long, a suspicious trip abroad or religious beliefs considered too advanced.
Michelle Bachelet called on China on Saturday to avoid the measures arbitrary and impersonal in Xinjiang, while attacking the violent acts of extremism.
A predictable trap
The human rights organization Amnesty International lamented the fact that Ms. Bachelet in a very predictable propaganda maneuver of the Chinese government.
China’s state media reported this week that he praised China’s progress on human rights-a statement not denied or confirmed by UN agencies.
In general, they only covered his travels, reporting only very good reports of his meetings with President Xi Jinping and Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Some Western countries, driven by secret motives, have made intense efforts to disrupt and undermine the High Commissioner’s visit. Their schemes failedreceived Ma Zhaoxu, a Chinese vice-minister of foreign affairs, on Saturday night.
Amnesty International has called on Michelle Bachelet to publish her report in Xinjiang as soon as possible, its publication has been repeatedly postponed, otherwise is tantamount to infidelity to the victims and their families.
Many Uighurs say they have no news of their imprisoned relatives.
This issue and others were presented to the authoritiesMichelle Bachelet assured, adding that she had many cases were discussed.
The high commissioner strongly defended his stay, saying he met the people he wanted in Xinjiang with access not administered of the authorities.
Michelle Bachelet said she met, among others, members of civil society and the leader of the Chinese Communist Party in the region.
A first visit in 17 years
This visit to China is the first by a high commissioner for human rights in 17 years. This follows difficult negotiations between the UN and Beijing.
Michelle Bachelet traveled to Xinjiang in the regional capital, Urumqi, and said she visited a prison in the city of Kashgar where she saw inmates among other things, describing her access as relatively open and relatively transparent.
The Xinjiang government, according to him, has ensured that the network vocational training centers became dismantle. Michelle Bachelet said she visited one of these old centers.
Details of his visit were not made public. Michelle Bachelet, because of the epidemic situation in China, is in a health bubble that keeps her away from foreign journalism.
Source: Radio-Canada
