ACCORDING to Human Rights Watch and to research done by Stanford Law School’s Human Rights & Conflict Committee, BBC researchers and documents gleaned from the internal archives of the Communist Party of China, these crimes are widespread. They are designed to crush and deprive the Uyghur people of their cultural identity and make them into slaves of the Chinese Communist Party.
Thousands of Uyghurs that have been “rehabilitated and brainwashed” to obey the party are allegedly being used as unpaid labor in garment factories controlled by the Communist Party. The fashion corporations in Western nations that are buying the garments are under pressure to stop buying these products. It will do no harm to the workers since they are not paid anyway. It seems being an Uyghur is being guilty of a crime and condemned to forced labor.
A Xinhua Weibo page quotes a Chinese official saying what should be done to Uyghur People: “Break their lineage, break their roots, break their connections, and break their origins. Completely shovel up the roots of “two-faced people,” dig them out, and vow to fight these two-faced people until the end.” It sounds like a declaration of war against these generally peace-loving people.
If the Chinese people were a free, democratic people they could be the greatest nation on earth because of their rich history, high level education, natural abilities and intelligence, and their love of the arts and literature. If the Chinese Communist Party dropped the “Communist” political ideology and identity and became just the “Chinese Party” that respected the rights of all and allowed other groups to democratically share power, it could indeed be the greatest nation on earth, admired by all. But the Communist Party has chosen to retain total power above all else. Taiwan has shown the world that a Chinese democratic nation can prosper, thrive and be free to enjoy their human rights and the respect of the nations of the world.
In Myanmar, the violation of the rights of the people has escalated since 2020. The most recent atrocity was when a military truck ploughed into a small group of protesters and then the soldiers shot and killed the demonstrators. Four were killed by the truck and many injured. The military that staged a coup last 2020 has violated the people’s human rights with arbitrary shooting, detention, torture, arrests and killing captives in the jails. Extra-judicial killings are common.
The plight of the Rohingya is worsening inside Myanmar. A campaign of ethnic cleansing based on hate and rejection in Rakhine State by the military has displaced hundreds of thousands within Myanmar. Already, 740,000 Rohingya have fled into Bangladesh for safety.
The world has a long way to go to evolve to an intelligent, compassionate place where human rights are respected and upheld and protected. There is no greater mission one could have than to defend in every way possible the human rights of every single person, especially those of women and children. (preda.org)/PN
