In response to the new United Nations (U.N.) report that found credible evidence of serious human rights violations in Xinjiang, the New Zealand National Party’s foreign affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee has instead echoed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda that it was dealing with a “terrorism problem.” “It’s good that it acknowledges that there has been […]
Posts Tagged ‘Xinjiang’
‘Terrorism Problem’: NZ Opposition Parrots CCP Line on Xinjiang Human Rights Abuses
China’s Treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity: UN
A number of “serious human rights violations” may have been committed against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, according to a new report by the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR). The 48-page report (pdf) was published on Aug. 31 by outgoing U.N. human rights commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, shortly before the end of her term. Bachelet has […]
China’s Treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity: UN
A number of “serious human rights violations” may have been committed against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, according to a new report by the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR). The 48-page report (pdf) was published on Aug. 31 by outgoing U.N. human rights commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, shortly before the end of her term. Bachelet has […]
China’s Treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity: UN
A number of “serious human rights violations” may have been committed against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, according to a new report by the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR). The 48-page report (pdf) was published on Aug. 31 by outgoing U.N. human rights commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, shortly before the end of her term. Bachelet has […]
UN report slams China for ‘torture and sexual violence’ in Xinjiang
A new United Nations human rights report has slammed China for serious human rights abuses in its western Xinjiang region, targeting native Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups. The report, which Western diplomats and UN officials said had been all but ready for months, was published late Wednesday evening with just minutes to go […]
UN Rights Office Publishes Xinjiang Report Opposed By China
GENEVA (AP) — The office of U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet published its long-awaited report on alleged rights violations in China’s western Xinjiang region Wednesday, brushing aside Beijing’s demands to keep a lid on a report that fanned a tug-of-war for diplomatic influence with the West over the rights of the region’s native Uyghurs […]
US House of Representatives votes to ban imports from China Xinjiang province over forced labour
The United States’ House of Representatives has passed legislation to ban imports from China’s Xinjiang province due to concerns about the forced labour of the persecuted Uyghur Muslims. In the vote held at the House of Representatives yesterday, its members overwhelmingly voted 428-1 in favour of the “Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act,” which would ban […]
US Calls Xinjiang an ‘Open-Air Prison,’ Decries Religious Persecution by China
China’s national flag is seen waving at the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, Texas, July 22, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Adrees Latif. The Chinese government has turned its western Xinjiang province into essentially an “open-air prison,” a US State Department official said on Wednesday as the department published a report that criticized China’s persecution of […]
China urges UN states not to attend Xinjiang event next week
China has urged United Nations member states not to attend an event planned next week by Germany, the United States and Britain on the repression of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang, according to a note seen by Reuters on Friday. “It is a politically-motivated event,” China’s UN mission wrote in the note, dated […]
Xinjiang Native Speaks Out: “Western Media Jeopardizing Uyghurs Interests”
Posted on April 25, 2021 by Zara Ali By Dan Cohen Source Dan Cohen speaks with Gordon Gao, an ethnic minority and Xinjiang native on the realities of life in Xinjiang, Western media coverage and US-China tensions. [embedded content] WASHINGTON — Dan Cohen speaks with Gordon Gao, Director of Strategic Research at Tsinghua University Endowment Fund […]
Why Xinjiang Is Emerging As The Epicenter Of The US Cold War On China
Above photo: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The US government’s information warfare against China has produced the “fact” that there is genocide in Xinjiang. Once this has been established, it helps develop diplomatic and economic warfare. On March 22, 2021, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken authorized sanctions against Wang Junzheng, the secretary of the Chinese […]
21 Trapped in Flooded Xinjiang Coal Mine: Chinese State Media
BEIJING—Twenty-one miners are trapped in a flooded coal mine in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday, citing a local emergency department. A section of the mine filled with water, leading to power outages just after 6 p.m. on Saturday when 29 miners were working at the site in Hutubi […]
Beijing’s Decades-Long Policies In Xinjiang
Above photo: CGTN. CIA Interference, Funding of Separatist and Terrorist Groups. Central to China’s rise as a global power are the attempts to increase its influence over Xinjiang, the country’s biggest and most mineral rich region. Xinjiang has been part of Chinese territory since the mid-18th century, longer than the existence of the United States, […]
China challenges UN high commissioner: Come to Xinjiang, but not for ‘investigation based on guilty before proven’
China has said that the door to Xinjiang “is always open” for UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, after she claimed Muslim Uighurs are suffering arbitrary detention and ill-treatment in the area. The statement was made on Tuesday by the Chinese delegation to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in response to comments by Bachelet […]
China claims Tibet and Xinjiang are ‘shining examples’ of human rights ‘progress’
China, which has been accused of genocide of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, on Monday said that the region, along with Tibet are ‘shining examples’ of human rights ‘progress’. Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remarks on Monday while speaking at a foreign ministry sponsored forum aimed at “Bringing China-US Relations Back to the Right Track.” […]
Xinjiang: An In-Depth Analysis and Resource Compilation
Source Based on a handful of think tank reports and witness testimonies, Western governments have levied false allegations of genocide and slavery in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A closer look makes clear that the politicization of China’s anti-terrorism policies in Xinjiang is another front of the U.S.-led hybrid war on China. This resource compilation provides […]
Xinjiang: In-Depth Analysis And Resources
Based on a handful of think tank reports and witness testimonies, Western governments have levied false allegations of genocide and slavery in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A closer look makes clear that the politicization of China’s anti-terrorism policies in Xinjiang is another front of the U.S.-led hybrid war on China. This resource compilation provides a […]
Xinjiang Hospitals Aborted Babies, Including Newborns, Spaced Out Less Than Three Years: Uyghur Obstetrician
Photo Credit: Sean Chiu/Wikimedia Commons (Radio Free Asia) — Hospitals in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) were forced to abort and kill babies born in excess of family planning limits or who were in utero less than three years after the mother’s previous birth, according to a Uyghur obstetrician and other sources. Hasiyet […]
Xinjiang And Uyghurs – What You’re Not Being Told
Xinjiang And Uyghurs – What You’re Not Being Told “1 million Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps!” … “Ethnic Cleansing and Cultural Genocide!” … the western media is very effective at using emotional phrases. But what’s the real story? Let’s go beyond exaggeration, distortion and sensationalism. First of all, the media will never show the peaceful, […]
Saudis Have Lost the Oil War
F. William Engdahl (NEO) : Poor Saudi Arabia. They don’t realize it yet but they have lost their oil war. The war in its current phase began in September, 2014, when the dying King Abdullah and his Minister of Petroleum, Ali Al-Naimi, told US Secretary of State John Kerry they would gladly join Washington in […]