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"PRAGUE — Four years after Beijing launched a brutal crackdown that swept more
than 1 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities in detention camps
and prisons in its western Xinjiang Province, members of the Uyghur diaspora
and activists are frustrated over a lack of international recognition for
alleged atrocities committed by the Chinese government.
Chinese authorities have been accused of imposing forced labor, mass
internment, forced birth control, erasing Uyghur cultural and religious
identity, and separating children from incarcerated parents.
These actions have drawn accusations of genocide from international rights
groups and several Western governments that have resulted in sanctions on some
top Chinese officials in Xinjiang.
Despite such moves and a growing body of evidence documenting such abuses,
members of the Uyghur community and researchers focused on the issue say there
has not been enough international political or legal action and called for
greater global pressure at a November 11-14 meeting in Prague by the World
Uyghur Congress, an international organization of the ethnic group’s diaspora
spread across 25 countries in Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North
America.
“On the whole the international response has been abysmal and utterly shameful.
It has been extremely inadequate given the scope of the atrocities,” Adrian
Zenz, an expert on China’s ethnic policies who has published detailed evidence
of Beijing’s alleged abuses against Uyghurs, told RFE/RL on the sidelines of
the event.
Though the focus of the meeting was to elect the organization’s leadership for
a three-year term, the gathering also featured panels with legal experts, human
rights groups, and survivors of China’s camp system — all of whom expressed
disappointment over what they described as a lagging international response
given the scale and severity of Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang."
Via Glyn Moody.
Cheers,
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
