Writing
10/12/2018
Jessica Martorell
Beijing, 10 dic (EFE).- Muslim-majority countries have chosen silence in the face of the repression suffered by Muslim minorities in China in exchange for maintaining the multimillion-dollar ties that unite them to the Asian giant., que ha detenido en sus centros de "reeducación" in Xinjiang about a million Muslims.
While the Muslim world looks the other way, The West champions international denunciation of this religious persecution, one of the worst human rights violations by Xi Jinping's government, who insists that these accusations are the result of a Western conspiracy.
"El silencio de los estados no occidentales está ayudando a China a justificar que son críticas con un sentimiento 'antichino' fruto de los prejuicios de Occidente", explains to Efe Peter Irwin, of the World Uyghur Congress, which brings together in exile members of this ethnic minority of Muslim religion that lives mainly in Xinjiang, In northwestern China.
The key to understanding this silence, which contrasts with other public complaints during the persecution against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma, These are the economic and geostrategic interests that China has been promoting with the Middle East in recent years and that have made it the second partner in the region..
The Human Rights Watch researcher (HRW) Maya Wang specifically points to the initiative known as The New Silk Roads, the ambitious Chinese project with which Xi seeks to promote relations with this geographic bloc through multimillion-dollar loans.
"Denunciar violaciones de derechos humanos no es fácil y menos cuando afecta a una potencia como China", commented Wang, una cuestión que se agrava debido a que "muchos de esos países tampoco respetan los derechos humanos" in their territories.
Only Türkiye dared to publicly criticize Beijing during the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Committee held last month in Geneva., where the rest of the Muslim countries praised the achievements in the fight against poverty or pollution, not to mention the crackdown in Xinjiang.
Like other Western representatives on the Committee, la portavoz turca manifestó "la creciente preocupación con las prácticas administrativas que incluyen restricciones en derechos y libertades básicas como el internamiento de individuos sin base legal".
Kazakhstan's reserve surprised, China's key partner in the New Silk Roads, despite the fact that citizens with ancestry in that country are detained - without having committed any crime- in these camps where former detainees and human rights organizations denounce torture, brainwashing and deaths in custody.
Jessica Martorell
Beijing, 10 dic (EFE).- Muslim-majority countries have chosen silence in the face of the repression suffered by Muslim minorities in China in exchange for maintaining the multimillion-dollar ties that unite them to the Asian giant., que ha detenido en sus centros de "reeducación" in Xinjiang about a million Muslims.
While the Muslim world looks the other way, The West champions international denunciation of this religious persecution, one of the worst human rights violations by Xi Jinping's government, who insists that these accusations are the result of a Western conspiracy.
"El silencio de los estados no occidentales está ayudando a China a justificar que son críticas con un sentimiento 'antichino' fruto de los prejuicios de Occidente", explains to Efe Peter Irwin, of the World Uyghur Congress, which brings together in exile members of this ethnic minority of Muslim religion that lives mainly in Xinjiang, In northwestern China.
The key to understanding this silence, which contrasts with other public complaints during the persecution against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma, These are the economic and geostrategic interests that China has been promoting with the Middle East in recent years and that have made it the second partner in the region..
The Human Rights Watch researcher (HRW) Maya Wang specifically points to the initiative known as The New Silk Roads, the ambitious Chinese project with which Xi seeks to promote relations with this geographic bloc through multimillion-dollar loans.
"Denunciar violaciones de derechos humanos no es fácil y menos cuando afecta a una potencia como China", commented Wang, una cuestión que se agrava debido a que "muchos de esos países tampoco respetan los derechos humanos" in their territories.
Only Türkiye dared to publicly criticize Beijing during the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Committee held last month in Geneva., where the rest of the Muslim countries praised the achievements in the fight against poverty or pollution, not to mention the crackdown in Xinjiang.
Like other Western representatives on the Committee, la portavoz turca manifestó "la creciente preocupación con las prácticas administrativas que incluyen restricciones en derechos y libertades básicas como el internamiento de individuos sin base legal".
Kazakhstan's reserve surprised, China's key partner in the New Silk Roads, despite the fact that citizens with ancestry in that country are detained - without having committed any crime- in these camps where former detainees and human rights organizations denounce torture, brainwashing and deaths in custody.
"El caso de Kazajistán es muy llamativo", assured Wang, which also highlights that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC, in English) has not spoken publicly about these detention centers, que según el Gobierno son "de formación profesional".
"Ayudaría si alzaran la voz conjuntamente", duck, and remember that China arbitrarily interrogates those who maintain some type of link with more than twenty countries that make up the OIC under the protection of its controversial fight against terrorism.
Asked by Efe about the violations that occur in Xinjiang, neither the OIC nor Türkiye's embassies in China, Kazakhstan and Malaysia declined to comment..
"Estos países no tienen ningún incentivo para realizar una declaración pública", fairy tale, ya que "los intereses económicos tienden a ser primordiales".
China's bilateral trade with the Middle East has gone from 36.700 million dollars in 2004 to the 191.352 millions in 2017, which represents an annual increase in 11,9 %. in 2017, Chinese direct investment in these countries was in the 1.260 Millions of dollars.
Behind Pakistan's silence, For example, could be the multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), trade route that will provide the Asian giant with a gateway to the Arabian Sea for merchandise traffic.
Neither Saudi Arabia nor Iran are willing to damage their relations with Beijing and put their oil exports at risk., nor Malaysia to lose its main source of foreign investment.
While, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, The European Union has once again denounced mass arrests, the lack of religious freedom and intimidation suffered by Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. EFE
