{"id":939,"date":"2021-11-09T20:28:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/?p=939"},"modified":"2021-11-09T20:28:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:28:27","slug":"us-holocaust-museum-says-china-boosting-uyghur-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/us-holocaust-museum-says-china-boosting-uyghur-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM SAYS CHINA BOOSTING UYGHUR REPRESSION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AP News<\/a>. 9 November 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below is article published by AP News<\/a>. Photo:AP.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says it has compiled evidence of increasing government\u00a0repression against Uyghur Muslims\u00a0in\u00a0China\u2019s western Xinjiang region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In a new report released Tuesday, the museum\u2019s Center for the Prevention of Genocide says there is now \u201ca reasonable basis\u201d to believe that previously alleged crimes against humanity versus the Uyghurs are growing amid a concerted campaign to hide their severity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Chinese government has done its best to keep information about crimes against the Uyghurs from seeing the light of day,\u201d said Tom Bernstein, the chairman of the museum\u2019s Committee on Conscience. \u201cThe Chinese government must halt its attacks on the Uyghur people and allow independent international monitors to investigate and ensure that the crimes have stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China has repeatedly rejected charges of human rights abuses and atrocities in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report, which cites witness testimony, publicly available information from dissidents and accounts provided by human rights groups, expands on the museum\u2019s March 2020 findings that the Chinese Communist Party had persecuted, unlawfully imprisoned and otherwise severely deprived Uyghurs of their physical liberty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new findings include allegations of forced sterilization, sexual violence, enslavement, torture and forcible transfer. The U.S. government has already determined that China\u2019s actions against Xinjiang\u2019s Uyghur Muslim and other minority populations amount to genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Chinese government\u2019s assault on the Uyghur community \u2014 marked by the incarceration of between one and three million people as well as abuses such as forced sterilization, torture, sexual violence, and forced labor \u2014 is alarming in scale and severity,\u201d said Naomi Kikoler, director of the museum\u2019s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide. \u201cThe damage inflicted upon Uyghur individuals, families, and their community has left deep physical and emotional scars. The trauma from these atrocities will harm generations of Uyghurs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kikoler said the 59-page report, \u201cTo Make Us Slowly Disappear: The Chinese Government\u2019s Assault on the Uyghurs,\u201d should serve as a wake-up call for the international community to boost pressure on Beijing to halt the repression in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China has said that allegations of rights abuses are lies. Just last month, China\u2019s U.N. Ambassador Zhang Jun attacked a statement signed by 43 countries condemning the reported torture and repression of Uyghurs and other religious and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, where foreign governments and researchers say an estimated 1 million people or more have been confined in camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zhang denounced \u201cthe groundless accusations\u201d and unfounded \u201clies\u201d and accused the United States and other signatories of poisoning the atmosphere of cooperation and \u201cusing human rights as a pretext for political maneuvering to provoke confrontation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Echoing the Chinese government\u2019s long-standing position, he strongly defended Beijing\u2019s efforts to develop Xinjiang, saying the lives of its people are getting better by the day and \u201cyour plot to obstruct China\u2019s development is doomed to failure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Associated Press reported in October that China\u2019s control of Xinjiang had entered a new era in the four years since Beijing launched the brutal crackdown that swept up to a million or more Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities into detention camps and prisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chinese authorities have scaled back many of the most draconian and visible aspects of the region\u2019s high-tech police state, including razor wire that once ringed public buildings, the AP reported after two visits to Xinjiang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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