As a Uighur Muslim myself, I know people are being brainwashed into forgetting their cultures, religions and identities. And yet, the human rights council has been largely silent about the escalating situation
Gulnaz Uighur
The Independent Voices
The UN human rights council is letting down China’s Uighur Muslims. Protesters from our community have been gathered by the Broken Chair sculpture in Geneva for the ongoing 41st session of the UNHRC, hoping that their cries would be heard by the member states sitting not too far away. The disappointment came almost immediately.
The commissioner’s opening speech glossed over the brutalities going on in China. And our trust was broken on the second day of the UNHRC session, when the vice governor of Xinjiang was given a platform to sell Beijing’s propaganda of how its concentration camps are just “vocational training centers”.
The protesters had hoped to be the voice of more than 2 million people held in those camps; a voice for those who are not able to fight for themselves and who are allegedly tortured for being Uighur Muslims. They hoped that the potential genocide that is unfolding in China would be highlighted and condemned; that this would be the moment the world acted rather than just saying “never again”.
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The person asking does not seem to know how the UN works. The main policy making body is in fact the UN Security Council. Other organs of the UN can do nothing that is prohibited by the UN Security Council. In that council the permanent members have a veto right. This includes China. Therefore never can the UN take action if any of the permanent members of the UN Security Council do not like it. As this seems cannot change I say: All UN agencies such as WHO, UNHCR, ILO etc. should leave the UN ! It is disgraceful to be connected with this totally undemocratic institution.
…… and unjust to boot!