Chinese Muslims’ detained in ‘concentration camps’ -EU Calls for Sanctions
In its far western region of Xinjiang, China has put In
China an estimated one and a half million people behind wire fences, a move
that some human rights activists have branded as “concentration-camps”. China
says it’s fighting separatism and religious extremism among Uighurs, a Muslim
ethnic group. ITV is
reporting that the Muslim Uighurs “crime is their refusal to denounce their
religion.”
The Chinese government has constructed a number of mass detention centers across Xinjiang, in which it has detained anywhere from several hundred thousand to possibly a million Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities. They have done all this under the pretext of fighting the “three evil forces” in Xinjiang of terrorism, extremism, and separatism.
Xi’s government has recently made a dramatic shift in its
policy on the camps. They used to deny the existence of the camps, now the government
is showing them off. Muslim Uighurs have been a problem for Beijing for
decades.
Muslim countries around the world have clamoured to denounce
what is occurring. The European Union and its member states have taken note and
it is reported that European lawmakers have called for sanctions against human-rights
abusers in China.
A group of EU parliamentarians published a new
draft resolution urging Beijing to stop its persecution of Uyghur and
Kazakh minorities, Falun Gong adherents, Tibetans, and Christians.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) runs right though the
Uighurs homeland, who have been giving China major security issues.
It is reported that in interviews by many media outlets multiple
detainees from inside the camps say “I want to say that I am here voluntarily”.
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