Top Human Rights News of the Week China and Crimes in Xinjiang

As widely reported by media outlets throughout the world, China’s human rights
violations in Xinjiang province against the Muslim Uyghur community is well known.
Researchers have sourced the use of forced human labour to mass-produce goods in the
most basic and widely used product supply chains across the world. China has been
allegedly using the UN to shield itself from the crimes the regime is committing in the
province.

In a letter written to the editor of The Economist, a Chinese diplomat has suggested that
in addition to the surveillance, mass arbitrary detentions and forced re-education,
China’s actions in the province is akin to principles embodied in a number of
international documents on counter-terrorism, those drafted by the UN.

China has therefore been using the garb of multilateralism and counter-terrorism to
oppress the Uyghur Muslims, angering top officials in the international body.

The massive human rights violations taking place in the region is widely documented
and it now time for the UN to review its strategies on counterterrorism so that they
cannot be taken out of context and be used to lead mass persecution of a dying
community.
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week-china-and-crimes-in-xinjiang/