Xinjiang: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Criticism Beijing… diplomatically

Michelle Bachelet finished, Saturday, May 28, a visit to China during which she went to the Xinjiang, a province whose Muslim minority, the Uighurs, is the target of an internment policy and very large -scale surveillance.

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Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights completed, Saturday, May 28, a visit to China started five days earlier, during which she went for two days in the Xinjiang. Beijing is accused of maintaining more than a million Muslims in this province in detention, mainly Uighurs, a policy that the United States and other Western countries call “genocide”. It was the first visit to China of a High Commissioner for Human Rights for seventeen years.

During the press conference that she held (by video) at the end of her visit, the longest and most loaded with emotion of M ^me Bachelet was addressed To a Chinese journalist who questioned her about the Killer of Uvalde, in the United States. In a supervisory statement of ten minutes, the High Commissioner said that the subject of his visit was not to “investigate” but to exchange with Chinese human rights officials.

She said “heard” those who, before her visit, asked her to mention special situations or cases. After having evoked the “huge achievements” of China in the fight against poverty, then the situation of women – of which she would like a reinforced presence “at all levels of political representation” – and the death penalty – that She would like to see abolished -, the High Commissioner mentioned the most delicate subject: the Xinjiang.

“It is very important that the responses against terrorism do not lead to a violation of human rights,” said Bachelet. Regarding the detention centers that China describes “education and vocational training centers”, it was “unable to assess the scale”. But, she said, “the government assured me that the system was dismantled”.

Tibet, Hongkong…

M Me Bachelet also mentioned Tibet: “It is important that the linguistic, cultural and religious identity of the Tibetans is protected and that the Tibetans are allowed to participate fully and in complete freedom Decisions concerning their religious life. “Regarding Hong Kong,” the arrests of lawyers, activists, journalists and others due to the National Security Act are deeply disturbing, “she said. p>

On Saturday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry of Affairs published in turn a statement on this visit. She gave “concrete positive results”, estimates my Zhaoxu, vice-minister of foreign affairs. In this press release, it again denounces the “lies” of “certain countries” concerning the Xinjiang and does not evoke a possible “dismantling” of “training centers”.

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