{"id":99001,"date":"2023-12-06T19:41:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T16:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=99001"},"modified":"2023-12-06T19:41:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T16:41:21","slug":"un-rights-chief-criticized-for-not-acknowledging-oppression-of-uyghurs-on-genocide-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/uncategorized\/99001-un-rights-chief-criticized-for-not-acknowledging-oppression-of-uyghurs-on-genocide-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"UN rights chief criticized for not acknowledging oppression of Uyghurs on genocide convention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the 75th anniversary of the U.N. convention on genocide, the international body\u2019s human rights chief called on the global community to hold perpetrators accountable, but was slammed for failing to condemn the situation facing Uyghurs in north-western China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volker Turk, the U.N.\u2019s High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement: \u201cIt is always the culmination of preceding and identifiable patterns of systematic discrimination \u2013 based on race, ethnicity, religion or other characteristics \u2013 and of gross human rights violations, targeted as a matter of policy against a people; minority; community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the statement, Turk referenced past examples of genocide, including during the Holocaust, and in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who monitor the Uyghur situation in China\u2019s Xinjiang \u2013 many of whom say genocide is occurring in the region \u2013 took to social media on Tuesday to voice disappointment that Turk did not mention Xinjiang at all, despite what they call obvious warning signs, dismissing his statement as \u2018useless\u2019 and \u2018hypocritical.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities are believed to have been held in a network of detention camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/12\/449081.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/12\/449081.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/12\/449081-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 75th anniversary of the U.N. convention on genocide, the international body\u2019s human rights chief called on the global community to hold perpetrators accountable, but was slammed for failing to condemn the situation facing Uyghurs in north-western China. 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