The international community criticizes China’s persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang

The General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping said on Saturday (September 26) that the sense of gain, happiness, and security of the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang has been increasing. He also said that he adheres to the direction of sinicization of religion and persists in promoting and cultivating core socialist values. However, reports from human rights organizations and research institutions revealed that China’s persecution of local ethnic minorities and human rights violations in Xinjiang are increasing.

The CCP’s third Central Xinjiang Work Symposium held its second day in Beijing on Saturday. Xi Jinping said at the meeting that Xinjiang’s economic and social development and the improvement of people’s livelihood "have achieved unprecedented success."

Xi Jinping first summarized the "transcripts" since the second symposium, and put forward data including Xinjiang's GDP, people out of poverty, compulsory education, and medical insurance for the poor. A set of data conveys people's livelihood temperature.

Chinese state media Xinhua reported on Sunday that Xi Jinping’s speech on work in Xinjiang on Saturday said that a practice has proved that the party’s strategy for governing Xinjiang in the new era is completely correct and must be adhered to for a long time.

According to the report, Xi Jinping requires the whole party to implement the party’s strategy of governing Xinjiang in the new era as a political task to ensure that Xinjiang work maintains the correct political direction. He also emphasized that adhere to the Sinicization of Islam in Xinjiang and guide the cadres of all ethnic groups to establish correct The concept of nation, history, nation, and religion rooted in the Chinese nation’s sense of community.

However, human rights organizations claim that as many as 1 million Uyghur Muslims have been detained in local re-education camps in recent years. In November last year, China’s official documents revealed by the International League of Investigative Journalists showed how Uyghur Muslims were imprisoned, indoctrinated and punished in re-education camps.

A leaked document seen by the Wall Street Journal in February this year showed that the relevant Chinese authorities compiled an electronic form with detailed personal information, including whether they often pray in a mosque, whether they hold a passport, or whether they violated the law. Relatives and friends.

China refers to re-education camps as "vocational skills education and training centers", with the purpose of "protecting the basic human rights of citizens to the greatest extent possible from terrorism and extremism."

However, the United States and European countries have been concerned about the Chinese government's persecution of Uyghurs and have increased pressure on China for this.

The European Parliament passed a resolution calling for sanctions on Chinese officials on December 19 last year and called on the Chinese government to immediately close the re-education camps and allow independent journalists and international observers to enter Xinjiang. On July 31 this year, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned a Chinese entity and two Chinese officials. They were all related to the serious violation of the human rights of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.

Just after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act last year to pressure China, officials in Xinjiang said that all students in the re-education camp have completed their studies and will come and go freely in the future. However, according to a report issued by the Australian think tank "Australian Institute for Strategic Policy Research" (ASPI) on September 24, China is still adding "investment" in the construction of Xinjiang detention camps, even though Beijing has stated that their "re-education" policy in Xinjiang is gradually canceling .

According to the ASPI report, they judged based on the latest satellite images that between July 2019 and July 2020, at least 61 construction sites in Xinjiang showed signs of building detention camps. The institute stated that after Xinjiang authorities announced that all students in the re-education camp had "graduated", there were still about 14 such detention camps under construction.

In addition, the Australian Institute of Strategic Policy also said in a research report released on September 25 that through satellite photos, about 16,000 mosques in Xinjiang were demolished or damaged.