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Uighurs: China is putting pressure on German MPs
November 10, 2018, 3:46 pm
China has accused Germany of meddling in its internal affairs over a human rights debate in the Xinjiang region and threatened to have consequences for German-Chinese relations. The Bundestag debated in Xinjiang on the so-called "human rights situation" on 8 November, despite the strong objections of the Chinese side, wrote the spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Berlin in a statement published on the website of the Embassy. With its "arbitrary charges against reality" Germany is carrying out a "gross violation of Chinese sovereignty".
China was extremely dissatisfied and protested diplomatically with a demarche in front of the Bundestag and the Federal Government. Such a protest note is usually addressed directly to government agencies. However, Beijing appears to want to put pressure on parliamentarians.
China has been under international pressure for a long time because it has targeted members of the Turkic population of the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region. Xinjiang is home to 23 million people, of whom more than 10 million are Muslims. Sanctions had already been considered in the US. A UN human rights committee recently reported that more than one million members of the Uighur population were detained in camps.
"In the right direction"
Riots in the region had killed hundreds of people in recent years. After fierce fighting in 2009 and a series of terrorist attacks, the security forces intervened there. The German Bundestag had dealt with the situation in Xinjiang last Thursday. In a motion by the Greens, it was called "arbitrary mass arrest of members of the minorities of the Uighurs and Kazakhs".
The Chinese embassy spokesman threatened the parliamentarians on the state website indirectly with negative consequences. He called on the Bundestag to call his country "to look at the overall picture of German-Chinese relations and to refrain from unjustified allegations against China and interference in China's internal affairs." It is to be hoped that the German side takes the concern and the demarche seriously, "to ensure that German-Chinese relations continue to develop in the right direction".
"The problem of violence and terrorism in Germany does not differ from that in Xinjiang, China," argued the embassy spokesman. "There are people being brainwashed by terrorist extremist groups abroad, religious fanaticism, and the tendency to violence." "Since the 1990s, there have been thousands of terrorist attacks in Xinjiang that have cost or injured thousands of lives, and it is now possible that no violent terrorist attacks have taken place for 22 months.
Criticism in the UN Human Rights Council
Green MP Margaret Bause said to the Embassy on behalf of the Embassy that it protects against such interference, warnings or even threats. In Baus' office, a staff member of the embassy had called to articulate the displeasure of the Chinese. The human rights spokesman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Michael Brand, strongly criticized China's response to the parliamentary debate: "That's not possible," said Brand Spiegel Online. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who is traveling to Beijing with a business delegation on Sunday According to Brand, this must be clear: Beijing is not only about economic dominance, but also about the attack of the liberal system of the West. Maas also wants to talk about the situation of the Uighurs in China.
Shortly before the parliamentary debate, several Western states, including Germany, have criticized China's government for treating the Uighurs at a UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week. US Ambassador Mark Cassayre urged China to release "the hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of people immediately" who were arbitrarily detained in the region. The representatives of Canada and the United Kingdom said that the human rights situation in China has generally deteriorated.
The Chinese government again denied the mass arrest of the Uighur Muslim minority in Geneva. China's representative at the hearing, Deputy Foreign Minister Le Yucheng, said the allegations were politically motivated. The UN Human Rights Council regularly reviews the human rights situation in all UN member states
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2018-11/uiguren-china-bundestag-debatte-umerziehungslager-druck
November 10, 2018, 3:46 pm
China has accused Germany of meddling in its internal affairs over a human rights debate in the Xinjiang region and threatened to have consequences for German-Chinese relations. The Bundestag debated in Xinjiang on the so-called "human rights situation" on 8 November, despite the strong objections of the Chinese side, wrote the spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Berlin in a statement published on the website of the Embassy. With its "arbitrary charges against reality" Germany is carrying out a "gross violation of Chinese sovereignty".
China was extremely dissatisfied and protested diplomatically with a demarche in front of the Bundestag and the Federal Government. Such a protest note is usually addressed directly to government agencies. However, Beijing appears to want to put pressure on parliamentarians.
China has been under international pressure for a long time because it has targeted members of the Turkic population of the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region. Xinjiang is home to 23 million people, of whom more than 10 million are Muslims. Sanctions had already been considered in the US. A UN human rights committee recently reported that more than one million members of the Uighur population were detained in camps.
"In the right direction"
Riots in the region had killed hundreds of people in recent years. After fierce fighting in 2009 and a series of terrorist attacks, the security forces intervened there. The German Bundestag had dealt with the situation in Xinjiang last Thursday. In a motion by the Greens, it was called "arbitrary mass arrest of members of the minorities of the Uighurs and Kazakhs".
The Chinese embassy spokesman threatened the parliamentarians on the state website indirectly with negative consequences. He called on the Bundestag to call his country "to look at the overall picture of German-Chinese relations and to refrain from unjustified allegations against China and interference in China's internal affairs." It is to be hoped that the German side takes the concern and the demarche seriously, "to ensure that German-Chinese relations continue to develop in the right direction".
"The problem of violence and terrorism in Germany does not differ from that in Xinjiang, China," argued the embassy spokesman. "There are people being brainwashed by terrorist extremist groups abroad, religious fanaticism, and the tendency to violence." "Since the 1990s, there have been thousands of terrorist attacks in Xinjiang that have cost or injured thousands of lives, and it is now possible that no violent terrorist attacks have taken place for 22 months.
Criticism in the UN Human Rights Council
Green MP Margaret Bause said to the Embassy on behalf of the Embassy that it protects against such interference, warnings or even threats. In Baus' office, a staff member of the embassy had called to articulate the displeasure of the Chinese. The human rights spokesman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Michael Brand, strongly criticized China's response to the parliamentary debate: "That's not possible," said Brand Spiegel Online. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who is traveling to Beijing with a business delegation on Sunday According to Brand, this must be clear: Beijing is not only about economic dominance, but also about the attack of the liberal system of the West. Maas also wants to talk about the situation of the Uighurs in China.
Shortly before the parliamentary debate, several Western states, including Germany, have criticized China's government for treating the Uighurs at a UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week. US Ambassador Mark Cassayre urged China to release "the hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of people immediately" who were arbitrarily detained in the region. The representatives of Canada and the United Kingdom said that the human rights situation in China has generally deteriorated.
The Chinese government again denied the mass arrest of the Uighur Muslim minority in Geneva. China's representative at the hearing, Deputy Foreign Minister Le Yucheng, said the allegations were politically motivated. The UN Human Rights Council regularly reviews the human rights situation in all UN member states
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2018-11/uiguren-china-bundestag-debatte-umerziehungslager-druck