Team News Riveting
The alleged crime against humanity in Xinjiang had been missing the agenda but China had surfaced it for a debate ahead of Human Rights Council session.
The 47th session of the Human Rights Council is scheduled to begin on June 21 and end on July 13. Topics on China’s Xinjiang region are not listed in the released agenda. But China had been over-reacting on the issue probably going by the dictum that offensive was the best defence.
The China government’s mouthpiece Global Times reported that it had learned that Western countries, including Canada were working hard to insert Xinjiang-related topics to the session, attempting to maintain the “fever” and attention to accuse China for lies of “genocide.” Canada would lead in making a Xinjiang-related joint statement at the interactive dialogue on the annual report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the 47th session of the Human Rights Council on June 21, the report added.
Interestingly, neither Canada had hinted nor the 47th session’s agenda had made any reference on the issue. But China had been desperate as the Xinjiang issue related to human rights violation targeting minority community.
Human Rights Watch in its report released in April said that the Chinese government was committing crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the northwest region of Xinjiang. “The Chinese leadership is responsible for widespread and systematic policies of mass detention, torture, and cultural persecution, among other offenses. Coordinated international action is needed to sanction those responsible, advance accountability, and press the Chinese government to reverse course,” it added.
China had targeted Canada in an apparent move to silent the critics on the issue. The state-owned newspaper even carried reports of human rights violation in Canada with some pictures.
“Apparently, Canada has made a wrong decision and its moves to pressure China will end with no good. There is no genocide in China’s Xinjiang as the international community has known and except for some Western countries, the majority of developing countries will not follow with their allegation against China,” an official said.
