2023-08-26 22:27:09
the president of china, Xi Jinpinghas done this Saturday an appeal to the consolidation of the social stability Yet the “sinification of Islam“before the”highlighted problems that constrain“the development of the Xinjiang regionwhere the Chinese authorities, denounce humanitarian organizations, are perpetrating a abuse campaigns against the Uyghur Muslim minority.
“Efforts must be made not only to address the prominent issues currently constraining Xinjiang’s development, but also to effect long term commitments that promote the stability and prosperity of the region”, he made known during a speech delivered in the regional capital, Urumqi, and picked up by the official Chinese news agency, Xinhua.
Last year, a UN report stressed “credible” test of Human Rights violations that China would have carried out in Xinjiang against the minority of Muslim confession. There are currently some 10 million Uyghurs in Xinjiang, which has an area roughly equivalent to three times that of Spain. Most of them live in the south.
Specifically, this report -which has been in preparation for three years-, assured that they would have been committed “serious violationss of Human Rights” in the context of the application of eanti-terrorism strategies and against “extremism” approved by the Chinese government in 2014.
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The Chinese authorities have categorically denied any kind of abuse or campaign to annihilate the Uyghur culture. However, the Chinese president has insisted on the need to promote what he described as “sinicization of Islam” and “effectively control various aillegal religious activities”in statements collected on his part by the Chinese public chain CCTV.
Lastly, and given the threat posed by some armed groups operating in the area and their separatist ambitionsXi has insisted this Saturday on the need to “improve mechanisms to disable any type of potential danger“through” the integration of the fight against terrorism and separatism with the reinforcement of current legal regulations.
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