The United Nations released a bomb report on serious human rights violations in the Xinjiang Chinese region on Wednesday night, said the accusation of credible torture and quoting the possibility of crimes against humanity.
The report, in making about one year, was released in Geneva at 11:47 pm (2147 GMT) on Wednesday, only 13 minutes before the term of four years Michelle Bachelet as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ended.
Former President Chile was determined to ensure the report saw the light of the day – although there was a strong pressure from an angry Beijing.
“I said that I would publish it before my mandate ended and I had,” Bachelet said in an email sent to AFP.
“The problem is seriously I appointed it with a high-level national and regional authority in this country.”
China has been accused for years to hold more than one million Uyghur and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region.
The activists accuse China of litani violations, while Beijing strongly refused the claim, insisted on carrying out a vocational training center in Xinjiang which was designed to fight extremism.
Bachelet finally decided that the full assessment was needed from the situation in the autonomous region of Xinjiang Uyghur (Xuar).
– Torture allegations ‘credible’ –
“Serious human rights violations have been carried out in Xuar in the context of implementing counter-terrorism and counter-extremism ‘strategies,” the report said.
This assessment raises concerns about the treatment of people held in what is called the “Center for Education and Vocational Training” China.
“Allegations of torture patterns or bad treatment, including forced medical care and adverse detention conditions, credibel, such as accusations of individual sexual violence incidents and gender -based,” the report said.
“The level of arbitrary detention and discriminatory from members of Uyghur and other groups dominated by Muslims, in accordance with the law and policies, in the context of more general restrictions and deprivation of fundamental rights that are enjoyed individually and collectively, can be a crime International, especially crimes against humanity that is enjoyed individually and collectively, can be collectively, can be an international crime, especially crimes against humanity that is enjoyed individually and collectively, can be collective, can be an international crime, especially crimes against humanity. .
The report urged Beijing, the United Nations and the world in general to focus his views on the situation described in Xinjiang.
“The situation of human rights in Xuar also requires immediate attention by the government, the United Nations Government Agency and the Human Rights System, as well as the international community more broadly,” he said.
The 49-page report does not refer to genocide: One of the main accusations made by Chinese critics, including the United States and members of parliament in other Western countries.
– ‘Firmly opposed’ –
Speaking on Wednesday after the Bachelet office announced that he would release the report, Zhang Jun, the Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, said Beijing told him that it was “conflicting” with rights assessment.
“The problem called Xinjiang is a lie that is fully made up of political motivation and its goal is to damage the stability of China and to prevent Chinese development,” Zhang told reporters.
He said Bachelets should remain “independent” and not be left to “political pressure” from Western countries.
Bachelet and his office have repeatedly explained that one of the reasons for the report was postponed was because it had been sent to the first Beijing for comments, as was the case with the report.
But Zhang stated that China had not seen the report, and was “fully opposed”.
“This only damages the cooperation between the United Nations and member countries. This really disturbs China’s internal affairs,” he said.
Bachelet insists that dialogue with Beijing does not mean “forgiving, facing or closing the eyes”.
But he added: “The politicization of serious human rights issues by some countries does not help. They make tasks more difficult, they make involvement more difficult and they make the development of trust and the ability to truly impact more difficult ground.”