Imran Chowdhury B.E.M

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has exposed harrowing abuses of crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang province of China where the ill-fated Uyghur Muslims live. Although it seemed like water down, scared to call it a Genocide kind of report, it is now evident that the cat has come out of the bag with the truth.

A strongly worded UN new report on the Chinese appalling act of heinous crimes against these marginal, impoverished Uyghur Muslims has awakened the civilised world. The Muslim minority population living in Xinjiang province has been facing the inhuman wrath of persecution. Under brutal Chinese treatment, the allegation of patterns of torture, or ill-treatment, including forced medical treatment and advanced conditions of detention, is credible, as are allegations of individual incidents of sexual and gender-based violence.

The UN reiterated that the magnitude of arbitrary detention against Uyghur and others, in the context of ” restriction and deprivation more generally of fundamental rights, enjoyed individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, particularly crimes against humanity.

These are shocking news of Chinese atrocity, horrendous nature destruction of a particular ethnic minority living in this part of china from the 8th century and an integral part of Chinese society and have a long cherished history spanning from the 3rd century CE. There are 12 million Uyghur’s living in China, predominantly Sunni Muslims. The conflict stems from the sudden rise of Chinese Hans moving into the Xinjiang province; this new stream of migratory mainstream Chinese Hans has started this campaign of destruction and racial persecution to obliterate the Uyghur.

China is a superpower and has been flexing its muscle all around the region and engaged in all sorts of espionage, trade, land grabbing, picking bones and exerting its supremacy in the Indian Ocean region, muscling into control.

South China sea, skirmishes with India, the dubious nature of the activities of the outbreak of the COVID; a laboratory fiasco and, among other things, much more over the ambitious initiatives to allure poorer nations into development under the shadow of a debt trap and subsequently act enforcer or bailiff to take over debt-ridden states’ Chinese built projects. They were tipping the faltering country over the edge of bankruptcy to anarchy.

The world needs to stand up to these unilateral mindless empire-building wishes of a country which fails to provide a minimum standard of human rights to its citizen.

Being a Muslim, Sunni Muslim or an ethnic minority must not be the reason for persecution. It is heartbreaking that the country, which is an ally of its so-called Islamic Republic, where China is ready to bend any rules or regulations to support that country, yet miserably fails to protect its indigenous Muslim minorities at home.

The minority population must not be subjected to torture or abuse. The Muslims and all the other people worldwide are disgusted to read this scathing report from the United Nations.