WASHINGTON: The Head of the United Nations Rights was criticized on Friday because it announced next week’s visit to Xinjiang China, with the United States said he failed to defend the Uyghur community in the region.
After years of asking for access to “meaningful and not restrained” to Xinjiang far away, Michelle Bachelet will finally lead the mission of six days to China starting Monday, his office said.
The visit, at the invitation of Beijing, marked the first journey to China by the Head of the United Nations Rights since Louise Arbor went there in 2005.
The United States, in a strong criticism, said “very concerned” that Bachelet, a former President of Chile, will advance without guarantees of what he can see.
We have no hope that the PRC will provide the necessary access needed to conduct a complete assessment that is not manipulated on the human rights environment in Xinjiang,” spokesman for the Ned Price Foreign Affairs Department told reporters, using the acronym for the People’s Republic of China.
Price also voiced the alarm that Bachelet had not released a long-awaited report on Xinjiang, where the United States and several other Western countries said Beijing carried out “genocide” of Uyghur and people who were mostly Muslims, Turkish-speaking.
Although often guaranteed by his office that the report will be released in a short time, it is still not available to us and we ask for a high commissioner to release a report without delay and not waiting for a visit,” Price said.
The silence continues in front of evidence of undeniable cruelty in Xinjiang and other human rights violations and violations throughout the PRC are very alarming,” he said, said Bachelet must be a prominent voice about human rights.
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Bachelet himself has demanded access to all regions in China since he served in 2018.
He has repeatedly voiced concerns about the accusations of widespread violations in Xinjiang but has been criticized for not taking a strong enough attitude.
The campaigners of the right to accuse the ruling communist party committed a wider violation in the name of security, saying at least one million Muslims had been imprisoned in “re-education camps” in an effort to force them into the majority of Han China.
Beijing clearly rejected the accusation of genocide, calling them “lies of this century” and argued that his policy had resisted extremism and improved livelihoods.