Washington, Sep 2 (PTI): The White Home has slammed China for its continued violation of human rights in opposition to minority communities.
White Home Press Secretary Karen Jean-Pierre throughout her day by day information convention on Thursday welcomed the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights report on Xinjiang that was launched the earlier night time.
The report stated China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and different largely Muslim ethnic teams within the western area of Xinjiang might represent crimes in opposition to humanity.
“The report deepens our grave concern regarding the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity that China is perpetrating. Our position on the atrocities in Xinjiang has been clearly demonstrated with our words and in our actions,” Jean-Pierre stated.
The Biden administration has taken concrete measures and the President has rallied allies and companions, together with the G7, to make sure all world provide chains are free from the usage of compelled labour together with from Xinjiang, she stated.
“We will continue to work closely with partners and the international community to hold China accountable, and we will call on China to immediately cease committing these atrocities, release those unjustly detained, account for those disappeared, and allow independent investigators full and unhindered access to Xinjiang, Tibet, and across China,” Jean-Pierre stated.
In an announcement, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that the August thirty first report by the UN Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights outlines in alarming particulars the human rights violations and abuses occurring in Xinjiang.
“This report deepens and reaffirms our grave concern regarding the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity that PRC government authorities are perpetrating against Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang,” he stated.
The conclusion that the authorities’ mass arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and others might have dedicated crimes in opposition to humanity corroborates what human rights advocates and members of the Uyghur diaspora have documented for years, stated Senator Jeff Merkley and Consultant James P McGovern, chair and co-chair respectively of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional-Govt Fee on China (CECC).
“In doing so, the report sends a powerful message that the international community, including the UN, must act now to ensure accountability for the atrocity crimes perpetrated by Chinese officials in the XUAR. With the UN Human Rights Council preparing to meet later this month, it is more important than ever that world leaders identify and hold to account the officials responsible for human rights violations in the XUAR and ensure justice for the victims of these abuses. As the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded, ‘the conditions remain in place for serious violations to continue and recur’,” he stated. PTI LKJ IJT
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