MUNICH: The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an Uyghur rights organisation primarily based in Munich, Germany in an announcement launched on Friday, condemned the Chinese language authorities for the atrocities they inflicted upon the Uyghur neighborhood of east Turkistan. The WUC slammed Beijing and acknowledged that the nation should take duty for atrocities within the East Turkestan/Xinjiang area, and compensate the victims for the losses they’d suffered.
The assertion by the WUC got here on the 15th anniversary of the Urumchi bloodbath generally generally known as the Urumqi bloodbath. The assertion WUC quoted the accounts of the guide for genocide prevention on the Society for Threatened Folks (STP) who mentioned “Over the previous 15 years, the human rights state of affairs of the Uyghurs has steadily deteriorated. Official statements by the regime on the Urumqi bloodbath are merely a distortion of the reality and a cover-up of human rights violations within the area. On the identical time, the regime continues to keep up the narrative of Uyghurs as terrorists and extremists. The struggling of the Uyghurs is to be made invisible”.
In response to historic information, “On July 5, 2009, a whole lot of Uyghurs protested in Urumqi, the capital of East Turkestan/Xinjiang. The set off was the homicide of Uyghur manufacturing facility employees within the southern Chinese language province of Guangdong. At the very least 200 folks had been killed within the brutal suppression of the peaceable protests. The merciless bloodbath 15 years in the past was the start of everlasting violence towards Uyghurs, which has led to huge human rights violations and systematic repression”.
“For Uyghurs, July 5 is a day of mourning. The households of the victims and the survivors have a proper to have the occasions handled and to obtain applicable compensation. We demand that these liable for the Urumqi bloodbath be held accountable. In Urumqi, Uyghurs peacefully made their calls for in 2009. As a substitute of coping with the coverage of oppression and exclusion, the Chinese language authorities is constant its brutal coverage and has been committing genocide towards the Uyghurs with its internment coverage since 2017” mentioned Kuerban Gheyyur, head of the Berlin WUC workplace.
Moreover, the identical WUC assertion claimed that 1000’s of Uyghurs are nonetheless within the internment camps and have formally been labelled as prisoners and lots of inmates have been sentenced to life imprisonment or compelled to do compelled labour. The WUC together with its sister human rights organisations urged that a direct and impartial investigation over the perpetrators be launched for the Urumchi bloodbath and the culprits should be punished. Individuals who have been arrested and put in internment camps should be launched.
