Canada’s ambassador to the UN: China’s humanitarian crimes against Muslim Uyghurs are condemned, and we will act to punish it
Fifty countries condemned, in a text read out by Canada during a session of the Third Committee of the General Assembly on Human Rights of the United Nations, the persecution practiced by communist China against the Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang, stressing that they are deeply concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in the country.
Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Ray, said in a press interview, which was followed by Shia Waves News Agency: “The significance of the decision to condemn human rights violations in Xinjiang lies in that the Human Rights Committee took a long time to issue its report and finally they issued a very clear report based on the documents provided by the Chinese government itself.”
He added, “The Chinese government has detained nearly one million people from the persecuted Uyghur minority in Xinjiang, and there is evidence of potential crimes against humanity in terms of the low birth rate and many other ways in which the Uyghurs have been suppressed, and this poses a serious challenge for China.”
Ray explained that “China refused to acknowledge the importance of the documents, so we continue to keep this issue alive, and I think the next step is to continue working here in New York as well as in Geneva, where the Human Rights Council is,” noting that “all the violations that the Uyghurs are subjected to reach them successively. They know enough about what is happening in Xinjiang.”
Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations noted that the Chinese government should respond to the families’ request to know how they can be reunited with their families, and stressed that “there are economic sanctions that will be imposed on China from a number of countries in relation to goods originating in Xinjiang.”
“The purpose of the condemnations and sanctions is to try to make China change, respond and realize the extent of international concern about the Uyghur issue,” he explained.
