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The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, During your first official visit to the
Tibet region in 2021 XINHUA / Apps: Ismael Arana
Hong Kong
05/09/2022The International Human Rights Watch Organization (HRW) He denounced on Monday that China has intensified its efforts to collect the DNA of the population of the Tibet region, including blood samples of up to 5 years without the apparent consent of their parents.
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“There is no evidence to suggest that people can refuse to participate”, dice HRW
"There are no available evidence to suggest that people can refuse to participate or that the police have credible evidence of criminal conduct that can justify that collection.", The text pointed out.
To his Juucio, That massive campaign is a violation against their rights, since it cannot be justified as "necessary or proportionate". "DNA information is very sensitive and can facilitate a wide range of abuses if you are collected or shared without consent", Add in another section.
Official reports of the Chinese media collected in the document describe these DNA collection operations as a way of “strengthening the class social government system”.
They also link them with the government campaign called the "Grandes" (inspection, Research and mediation), Designed to strengthen the police system and includes the construction of new police stations. The report also cites two government tenders for the construction of local DNA databases.
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Bloods of up to half a million people from a town were collected, According to the report
According to an article from the May Press of May of 2019, The Public Security Office of the Tibetan City of Chamdo initiated a one -year campaign to collect fingerprints and blood samples of its residents in order to store them in a police database that served to help capture fugitive. HRW's report ensures that blood was removed from, at least, half a million people from that municipality.
The document also identified several articles that ensure that children from up to 5 years were included in the DNA collection campaign, and details several sample collection carried out in kindergartens.
"The use declared by the authorities of this data (Crime detection) It does not seem to constitute a legitimate and proportionate purpose that serves the best interest of the child ”, Underline the report.
China justifies its policies in Tibet on the anniversary of its “release”
China annexed the Tibet region in 1950 In what Beijing called a "peaceful release". The region, where Beijing has applied for decades restrictive policies against the local population, It is one of the most restricted access areas throughout the country. Journalists and diplomats are forbidden to go for free and foreign visitors should always be part of an organized trip.
DNA collection by Chinese authorities has already generated controversy in the past. In the year 2000, The government began the creation of a national database containing the DNA of at least 40 millions of people.
A "Education Center", According to the Chinese definition, In Kunshan industrial park, en Artux (Xinjiang), in it 2018
in 2017, Another HRW report said that Chinese law seemed to limit the collection of these samples to people related to a specific criminal case, but that the police had carried out massive campaigns to collect biometric information of common citizens for “an un specified need to‘ solve crimes ’”.
According to HRW researchers, Operations such as the one described in its latest report are similar to those registered in recent years in the neighboring Xinjiang region, where uigures and other ethnic minorities such as Kazakh.
