By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA – Now that the Beijing Winter Olympics is over, U.N. rights chief Michelle Bachelet should launch her long-delayed report on alleged violations in China’s Xinjiang area in opposition to Uyghurs and different ethnic minorities, Human Rights Watch stated on Tuesday.
Ken Roth, government director of Human Rights Watch, urged Bachelet to situation her workplace’s findings earlier than her March 7 speech to the primary annual session of the U.N. Human Rights Council which opens subsequent week.
Roth, noting that Bachelet’s spokesperson had stated in early December that the report could be launched inside weeks, informed a information briefing in Geneva: “We nonetheless don’t have it, we're at a loss as to what's going on…There's simply not any excuse for this ongoing, lengthy delay.”
There was no fast remark from Bachelet’s workplace.
Diplomats have additionally voiced dismay on the unexplained delay and fears that the proof Bachelet’s workplace might have collected over the previous three years might lose their relevance.
Rights teams accuse China of widescale abuses in opposition to Uyghurs and different minority teams, together with the torture, pressured labour and detention of 1 million individuals in internment camps. China says the camps are re-education and coaching services and denies any abuse, saying it's preventing spiritual extremism.
Erkin Tuniyaz, vice governor of Xinjiang, informed an occasion organised by China’s mission to the U.N. in Geneva on Tuesday that the autonomous area was thriving and that individuals had jobs, healthcare, schooling and social safety.
“Xinjiang now enjoys social stability, financial improvement, and folks reside in peace and contentment,” he stated.
“For a while, the anti-China forces within the U.S. and a few Western nations maliciously fabricated lies corresponding to pressured labour and genocide,” he added, referring to allegations by the USA and a few allies that led to their diplomatic boycott of the Olympics.
Bachelet’s workplace stated final month that conversations had been underway for a potential journey to the world in northwest China within the first half of the yr. The South China Morning Submit reported that a go to had been agreed for after the Olympics which ended final Sunday.
Bachelet might go to Xinjiang however China doesn't welcome any investigation primarily based on the presumption of guilt, China’s International Minister Wang Yi stated on Saturday.
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