UN report concludes China is violating human rights in Xinjiang: Beijing calls it a “farce” arranged by Western powers.

Hotair ^ | 09/01/2022 | John Sexton

[SeekAndFind]

The fact that China is abusing millions of people in Xinjiang is hardly news at this point. We’ve covered it here many times. But this particular UN report has apparently been delayed for at least a year. So, baby steps.

China had urged the UN not to release the report – with Beijing calling it a “farce” arranged by Western powers.

The report assesses claims of abuse against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, which China denies.

But investigators said they found “credible evidence” of torture possibly amounting to “crimes against humanity”…

“Despite the Chinese government’s strenuous denials, the UN has now officially recognised that horrific crimes are occurring,” Uyghur Human Rights Project Executive Director Omer Kanat said.

That link above goes to the full report. It sounds like there was a real battle going on behind the scenes between groups that wanted the report released and China which demanded it not be released. In the end China lost:

That the report was released was in some ways as important as its contents.

Outgoing rights chief Bachelet said she had to resist pressure both to publish and not publish. She had announced in June that the report would be released by end of her four-year term on Aug. 31, triggering a swell in back-channel campaigns — including letters from civil society, civilians and governments on both sides of the issue.

Why she waited until the last minute to release the report remains unclear…

“The inexcusable delay in releasing this report casts a stain” on the record of the U.N. human rights office, said Agnès Callamard, the secretary-general of Amnesty International, “but this should not deflect from its significance.”

China is not happy about that of course. It continues to deny there are any human rights problems in Xinjiang and to insist claims to the contrary are all part of a US plot:

“The assessment is a patchwork of false information that serves as political tools for the U.S. and other Western countries to strategically use Xinjiang to contain China,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said. “It again shows that the U.N. Human Rights Office has been reduced to an enforcer and accomplice of the U.S. and other Western countries.”

In a sign of China’s fury, it issued a 122-page rebuttal, entitled “Fight against Terrorism and Extremism in Xinjiang: Truth and Facts,” that was posted by the U.N. along with the report.

China’s 122-page response is here. I’d include a bit of the absurdist conclusion but the document is a pdf that isn’t selectable. In any case you can skip to page 119 to get a sense of how far the gaslighting goes in a one-party state.

Finally, here’s a selection of some of the stories we’ve published previously on this topic, all of which contradict the Chinese paper:

• Guards at Xinjiang re-education camps had standing shoot to kill orders
• Chinese whistleblower: Uyghurs were arrested at night and beaten until they confessed to something
• China’s reeducation camps are big enough to hold a million Uighurs at one time (Update: Kodak Kowtows)
• Amnesty: China has created ‘a dystopian hellscape’ in Xinjiang
• Eyewitnesses tell BBC: Women are being systematically raped in China’s concentration camps for Uighurs
• Woman describes two years in a Chinese re-education camp
• China has built 268 new re-education camps, some large enough to hold 10,000 people

Again, there’s really nothing new in the UN report. What matters is that they published it and didn’t succumb to Chinese pressure to whitewash this.

[SeekAndFind]

The Chinese response is to always show scenes of "Happy" people in Xin Jiang. They will even encourage foreign reporters to talk to these people to gauge their sentiments about the CCP and inevitably, they get POSITIVE responses.

And of course, they would show as evidence,the modernization of Xinjiang -- roads, bridges, buildings, transportation, etc. and then contrast these with America's broken roads, homeless people and dangerous subways.

[caww]

Well the west certainly is in no position to tell any other country about human rights. My gosh their cultures are different and how the people view their country....and frankly the west has shown they abuse their so called ‘freedoms’.

[dfwgator]

The UN is a farce alright.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I support any country standing up to the Muslims, ANY country!

Muslims refuse to live in peace with anyone and can not be tolerated. I don’t care if some Indian wants to worship a god with 10 arms or an alligator head! It’s not that I hate them for them believing in a different God. I despise them for their inability to live alongside others.

[CheshireTheCat]

It’s worse than this.

A couple of years ago, I saw a credible-looking video of what appeared to be Chinese men hauling bodies of men, ages 18-40, off trucks onto a concrete courtyard and slicing and dicing the bodies, as if they were going to market the “meat” as dogfood, hot dogs, or who knows what else.

I wish I would have kept the video just to shove in the faces of all those would deny that this is going on and that the Chinese would never, ever release a virus onto the world or collude with members of Western governments and pharm execs to poison people.

[Mark17]

They will even encourage foreign reporters to talk to these people to gauge their sentiments about the CCP and inevitably, they get POSITIVE responses.

I wonder what would happen if the Chinese people failed to give foreign reporters a positive response?🤪😆🤭🤗🧐

[Salman]

1) China is violating human rights in Xinjiang.
2) The UN is a farce.

These are not contradictory propositions.

What's the UN going to do? China is on the Security Council and will veto whatever they don't like.

Oh I know. The western press will whine them into submission.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

I was there once searching for new safflower sources. It is a horrid place. The uberfuerers are downright evil. The people are oppressed in every sense of the word.