The Xinjiang journey of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, aroused the indignation of NGOs, while a detailed report of her teams on repression in the region N ‘is still not published.
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A “fiasco”, a “scandal”, a “missed opportunity” to put a salutary spotlight on human rights in China: number of observers, militants and defenders of the OUIGOU cause, Muslim ethnicity of the Muslim ethnic Grand west Chinese, agree to conspire Michelle Bachelet, who completed, on May 28, a controversial journey in the People’s Republic. Thus, in the Xinjiang, after having visited a prison and a former internment camp reserved for members of Muslim minorities, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has cleared the Beijing regime to “fulfill its obligations In accordance with human rights protection laws “.
On the side of the diaspora of the Uighrs and spokespersons for the families of missing in the great Chinese goulag of the desert, anger prevails: “It is a Potemkin trip, a guided tour, where it did not could meet anyone, a shame! “Surgees Dilnur Reyhan, president of the Uighur Institute of Europe.
After the wrathful reactions of the United States -the State Department described the movement of M me bachelet of “error” -, the very thin assessment of this five -day trip risk Strong, according to his contemptors, to permanently tarnish the credibility of the UN on the subject of human rights.
More than a million Muslims have been held in Xinjiang since 2017, piled up in “rehabilitation” camps built for those suspected, in the greatest arbitrariness, Islamist drift and radicalization. A report on this tragic reality was written by the teams of M me bachelet, but has been sleeping for months in a drawer without anyone knowing what the High Commissioner intends to Do: “We do not know, there is no longer any delay, nothing,” notes a diplomatic source in Geneva, seat of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Pressure for the ratio of the report
According to information from the world, this report, based on interviews with Uighurs, satellite images and “open” sources such as the work of NGOs, researchers and journalists for four years, would not bring any revelation thunderous, but poses an objective description of the mass internment system and systematic monitoring of the Uingoure population, with a rigorous and prudent methodological approach, guaranteeing its legitimacy. “The report in itself does not invent the wheel, what matters is that it will wear the buffer of the UN Human Rights Office,” explains a source from the Geneva diplomatic fold.
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