Pakistan: China's Uighurs Final Solution Accomplice

'What About Concern Over Plight Of Muslims In China?': US Rebukes Pakistan
Pakistani Imran Khan, asked about the Uighurs, declined comment, saying that Pakistan had a "special relationship" with China.
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Imran Khan is known as a Muslim who assists China's Uighurs genocide.

In a snub to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, a top US diplomat on Friday questioned why Khan was not speaking out about China, which has detained an estimated one million Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking Muslims.
Amid increased tensions between India and Pakistan after New Delhi scrapped Article 370 of the Constitution, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir, Alice Wells, US Acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia said Khan's comments on Kashmir were unhelpful.

"A lowering of rhetoric would be welcome, especially between two nuclear powers."
She also questioned why Khan was not also speaking out about China, which has detained an estimated one million Uighurs. 

"...I would like to see the same level of concern expressed also about Muslims who are being detained in Western China, literally in concentration-like conditions. And so being concerned about the human rights of Muslims does extend more broadly than Kashmir, and you've seen the administration very involved here during the UN General Assembly and trying to shine a light on the horrific conditions that continue to exist for Muslims throughout China," she said.
Khan, asked about the Uighurs at a think tank on Monday, declined comment, saying that Pakistan had a "special relationship" with China and would only raise issues in private.
Rights groups and witnesses say that China has been trying to forcibly stop Islamic traditions and integrate Uighurs into the majority Han population. 

China says it is providing vocational training and discouraging extremism.
US sought to use the annual United Nations summit to build up international pressure on China over its treatment of the Uighurs.
The State Department had organised an event on Tuesday to highlight the plight of Uighurs in China. The conference was held on the sidelines of the General Assembly to garner support "to demand and compel an immediate end to China's horrific campaign of repression," John Sullivan, the US's second-highest diplomat, said.
"We cannot be the only guardians of the truth nor the only members of the international community to call out China and demand that they stop," Mr Sullivan added.
On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump also fired several shots across the bow of the fellow Security Council member, moving beyond his typical attacks against China on international trade.
"The world fully expects that the Chinese government will honor its binding treaty... (and) protect Hong Kong's freedom and legal system and democratic ways of life," Mr Trump told the General Assembly.
"How China chooses to handle the situation will say a great deal about its role in the world and the future," the Republican tycoon added during his third appearance at the diplomatic forum in New York.
It marked one of his most anti-China speeches on the situation in Hong Kong since massive anti-government protests broke out there three months ago. 

The demonstrations have triggered the Asian financial hub's biggest political crisis since its handover from Britain to China in 1997.

US leads China condemnation over barbaric East Turkestan repression

International community pushes for access to China's far western colony
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The UN says at least one million Uighurs have been detained in what China calls "recreational education centres". This one is in Dabancheng and was still under construction at the time the photo was taken on September 4, 2018.

The United States led more than 30 countries on Tuesday in condemning what it called China's "horrific campaign of repression" against Muslims in the western colony of East Turkestan at an event on the sidelines of the annual UN General Assembly.
In highlighting abuses against ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in China, Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan said the United Nations and its member states had "a singular responsibility to speak up when survivor after survivor recounts the horrors of state repression."
Sullivan said it was incumbent on UN-member states to ensure the world body was able to closely monitor human rights abuses by China and added that it must seek "immediate, unhindered, and unmonitored" access to East Turkestan for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Sullivan said Tuesday's event was co-sponsored by Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and Britain, and was joined by more than 30 UN states, representatives of the European Union and more than 20 nongovernmental organisations, as well as Uighurs themselves.
"We invite others to join the international effort to demand and compel an immediate end to China’s horrific campaign of repression," he said. 

"History will judge the international community for how we respond to this attack on human rights and fundamental freedoms."

Negotiating access
Paola Pampaloni, deputy managing director for Asia of the European External Action Service, said the EU was "alarmed" by the situation and also urged "meaningful" access to East Turkestan.
"We are concerned about ... information about mistreatment and torture," she said. 

"China is always inviting us to the camps under their conditions, we are in negotiations right now for terms and conditions for free access."
On Monday, Donald Trump had called for an end to religious persecution at another event on the sidelines of the UN gathering. 

He repeated his comments in a speech on Tuesday.
Trump, who has been cautious about upsetting China on human rights issues while making a major trade deal with Beijing a major priority, said religious freedom was under growing threat around the world but fell short of specifically mentioning the situation in East Turkestan.
"Volume is coming up at a pace that we hope that the Beijing government recognises not only US but the global concern about this situation," David Stilwell, US Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs told reporters at a briefing.
"We will see how that plays out and how Beijing reacts and take it from there."

The UN says at least one million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims have been detained in what China describes as "recreational training centres" to give people new skills.
Sullivan said the US had received "credible reports of deaths, forced labour, torture, and other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment" in the camps.
He said that the Chinese government forced detainees to renounce their ethnic identities as well as their culture and religion.
Though US officials have ramped up criticism of China's measures in East Turkestan, it has refrained from responding with sanctions, amid on-again, off-again talks to resolve a bitter, costly trade war.
At the same time, it has criticised other countries, including some Muslim states, for not doing enough or for backing China's approach in East Turkestan.
Rishat Abbas, the brother of Uighur physician Gulshan Abbas, who was abducted from her home in Urumqi in September 2018, told Tuesday's event that "millions of Uighurs are becoming collateral damage to international trade policies, enabling China to continue to threaten our freedoms around the world, enable it to continue its police state.”
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has repeatedly pushed China to grant the UN access to investigate reports of disappearances and arbitrary detentions, particularly of Muslims in East Turkestan.
China's envoy in Geneva said in June that he hoped Bachelet would visit China, including East Turkestan. 

Bachelet's office said in June that it was discussing "full access".

China's Final Solution

U.S. to co-host event at U.N. on China's treatment of Uighurs

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One of numerous Chinese concentration camps in East Turkestan.

UNITED NATIONS -- The United States will co-host an event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on China's treatment of Muslim minorities including ethnic Uighurs, the U.S. State Department said in a statement on Monday.
The event on Tuesday will be hosted by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan and will feature personal stories of victims, the statement said. 

It did not identify other hosts.
"China’s repression campaign includes, among other abuses, the mass detention of more than one million individuals in internment camps since April 2017," the State Department said.
U.N. experts and activists say at least 1 million Uighurs and members of other largely Muslim minority groups have been detained in massive concentration camps in the remote East Turkestan colony. 

Beijing describes complexes in East Turkestan as "vocational training centers" helping to give people new skills.
Washington has been weighing how to confront China on the issue at the annual gathering of world leaders in New York this week. 

On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged all countries in the world to resist China's demands to repatriate Uighurs.
Pompeo said Beijing's campaign in the western Chinese colony of East Turkestan was an "attempt to erase its own citizens."
Pompeo and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence could also address China's treatment of the Uighurs at events this week, but a final decision on any U.S. remarks "is expected to hinge on how the trade issue is going," an administration official said last week. 

China and the United States are fighting a trade war and are set to resume trade talks in October.