Beijing: United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) chief Michelle Bachelet will visit China’s Xinjiang province, where China is accused of violating the human rights of Uighur Muslims. Bachelet said in a video address at the UNHRC, ‘I am pleased to share that we have recently signed an agreement for the visit with the Chinese government.’ He said that this visit could happen in May.
“The government has already accepted a proposal to send a team (of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) to Xinjiang and other places to prepare for my stay in China,” Bachelet was quoted as saying by Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post newspaper. There will be a trip. The team will go to China next month. Bachelet has been in talks with Beijing to travel to Xinjiang since September 2018. There are allegations that more than a million people, mainly Uighur Muslims, have been held in mass hostage camps in the province.
The US, the European Union, and allies allege that Beijing’s treatment of Uighur Muslims is like genocide. China has defended its policies in the region, saying that such policies have been made with the aim of ending terrorism and extremism. China is accused of committing cruel atrocities on Uighur Muslims like the Taliban. Uighurs are subjected to various types of inhuman torture in the detention centers of Xinjiang province for not obeying the communist government. Many of the victims fleeing these excesses of Chinese rule have already presented details of the crimes being committed against themselves and fellow Uighur Muslims.
