Uighurs accuse China of mass detention torture in landmark complaint. They are recognised as being native to the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region in north west China and officially recognised as one of Chinas 55 ethnic minorities.
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Many Uighurs are Muslim and their religious faith has put them at odds with the officially atheistic.
China and uighur. Tahir Hamut Izgil a Uighur poet and film director based in Washington DC told me via an interpreter that this suppression of the Uighur cultural sphere dates back to at least 2012 when the. There are about 12 million Uighurs mostly Muslim living in north-western China in the region of Xinjiang officially known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region XUAR. It follows reports that as well as interning Uighurs in camps China has been forcibly mass sterilising Uighur women to suppress the population and separating Uighur children from their families.
Uighur women are subjected to forced pregnancy checks medication that stops their menstruation forced. China cuts Uighur births with IUDs abortion sterilization. Baqytalis mother Gulnar Omirzakh a Chinese-born ethnic Kazakh says she was forced to get an intrauterine contraceptive device and.
Ethnic Uighur demonstrators take part in a protest against China in Istanbul Turkey October 1 2020. The Uighurs are a nomadic Turkic people native to Chinas northwestern Xinjiang region. Chinas treatment of Uighurs is crimes against humanity.
Human Rights Watch is the latest to document policies of mass detention torture and cultural persecution in Xinjiang. By The Associated Press June 29 2020 GMT. The international community is legally obliged to take action on Chinas alleged abuse of Uighur and other Turkic minorities a prominent group of British lawyers has said suggesting nations.
Chinas position is that the Uighurs are receiving vocational training to learn about Chinese history and culture with the goal of fending off terrorism from Uighur separatist movements. Since 2017 China has reportedly detained up to one million Uighurs and other Turkic and Muslim minorities in a vast network of detention centres which it refers to as re-education camps or. Murad SezerReuters China is arbitrarily detaining up to 1 million people in Xinjiang Human.
Chinese officials have been ruthless in their pursuit of limiting new Uighur births. A March 2020 report from the Congressional-Executive Commission on China also found Uighur forced labor taking place within internment camps. It is the first time members of the minority group have sought to use international law to hold Beijing accountable for their.
Since 1955 when communist China annexed Xinjiang as an autonomous region we Uighurs have been seen as a thorn in the side of the Middle Kingdom. Alif Baqytali plays on a tricycle at his home in Shonzhy Kazakhstan on Saturday June 13 2020. China claims that Uighurs hold extremist views that are a threat to security.
China rejects Uighurs genocide charge invites UNs rights chief Activists and UN rights experts have said that at least one million Muslims are detained in camps in the remote western region. They point to attacks in 2013 and 2014 which Uighur militants claimed responsibility for.