{"id":1474876,"date":"2022-05-13T19:59:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T23:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474876"},"modified":"2022-05-13T19:59:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T23:59:52","slug":"morally-weak-why-critics-fear-un-investigation-may-whitewash-chinas-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morally-weak-why-critics-fear-un-investigation-may-whitewash-chinas-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018MORALLY WEAK\u2019: Why Critics Fear UN Investigation May Whitewash China\u2019s Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmorally-weak-why-critics-fear-un-investigation-may-whitewash-chinas-genocide%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474876&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><ul>\n<li><strong>Michelle Bachelet, the U.N.\u2019s Human Rights High Commissioner, will visit Xinjiang this month to investigate claims of human rights abuses.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cThe whole trip will be manipulated by China to show the U.N. delegation what it wants to show,\u201d Dr. Mamtimin Ala, a Uyghur activist, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li> <strong><strong>\u201c[The Chinese] were using journalists and visitors like me<\/strong><\/strong><strong>,\u201d Dr. Olsi Jazexhi, an Albanian reporter, told TheDCNF regarding his 2019 state-sponsored trip to Xinjiang.<\/strong> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">The upcoming U.N. investigation into China\u2019s human rights abuses in Xinjiang will likely fail to uncover any wrongdoing, experts told The Daily Caller News Foundation, because China has covered up its crimes and intends to lead the U.N. team on a scripted tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/about-us\/high-commissioner\">Michelle Bachelet<\/a><\/span>, the U.N.\u2019s top human rights official, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/speeches\/2022\/03\/global-update-bachelet-urges-inclusion-combat-sharply-escalating-misery-and-fear\"><span class=\"s1\">announced<\/span><\/a> in March that China had agreed to allow a U.N. delegation to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Xinjiang\"><span class=\"s1\">Xinjiang<\/span><\/a> at some point later this month. Bachelet\u2019s announcement came years after first announcing her 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/statements\/2018\/09\/39th-session-human-rights-council?LangID=E&#038;NewsID=23518\"><span class=\"s1\">intention<\/span><\/a> to visit the region, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2017\/09\/10\/china-free-xinjiang-political-education-detainees\">reports<\/a> that Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities were <a href=\"https:\/\/uyghurtribunal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Uyghur-Tribunal-Summary-Judgment-9th-Dec-21.pdf\"><span class=\"s1\">suffering<\/span><\/a> human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">However, experts told TheDCNF they fear the U.N. visit will serve to whitewash the genocide, anticipating China only intends to show the delegation staged locations, while some advocates argued Bachelet is too \u201cmorally weak\u201d to press the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole trip will be manipulated by China to show the U.N. delegation what it wants to show,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/east-turkistan.net\/leadership\/dr-mamtimin-ala\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Mamtimin Ala<\/span><\/a>, a strategic advisor for the East Turkistan Government in Exile, told TheDCNF.<\/p>\n<p>China has been repeatedly accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/redirects\/backstory\/television\/2018-09-16\/inside-chinas-secret-re-education-camps-cracking-down-on-islam\/10249426\">staging<\/a> events in Xinjiang for foreign consumption. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-08-03\/the-art-of-the-tour-xinjiang-north-korea-khmer-rouge\/11365368\">Australia Broadcasting Corporation<\/a> accused China of orchestrating staged tours of \u201cvocational centers\u201d for foreign media in 2019 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/whitewash-05132021195709.html\">Radio Free America<\/a> accused China of staging Ramadan celebrations to present an appearance of religious tolerance in Xinjiang in May 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cChina has nearly completed the main stage of the Uyghur genocide,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/east-turkistan.net\/president\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Ghulam Yaghma<\/span><\/a>, president of the East Turkistan Government in Exile, told TheDCNF. \u201cThe places to be visited have already been set up beautifully to hide the reality \u2026 China has already probably trained some Uyghurs on what to say to the delegates. They ought to speak from this script or face death after the trip is finished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics have also\u00a0speculated China forced <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/17\/china-uyghur-genocide-timeline\/\">Dinigeer Yilamujiang<\/a>, a Uyghur skier, to serve as one of the two athletes to light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony for the 2022 Beijing Olympics. More recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/foreign-propaganda-05012022132531.html\">Radio Free Asia<\/a> accused China of hiring bloggers to produce videos for Western social media whitewashing China\u2019s genocide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/victimsofcommunism.org\/leader\/ambassador-andrew-bremberg\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Andrew Bremberg<\/span><\/a>, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., told TheDCNF he is concerned Bachelet will go along with China\u2019s scripted tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel that Michelle Bachelet is in any way compromised by the [Chinese Communist Party]. I just think she is a morally weak politician,\u201d Bremberg said.<\/p>\n<p>Bremberg told TheDCNF he\u2019d met often with Bachelet while serving as ambassador and pressed Bachelet to \u201cdo more on Xinjiang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIn my personal meetings with her, she did not express that she cared about human rights in Xinjiang,\u201d said Bremberg. \u201cShe was not going to press the Chinese on this issue and seemed to think of it as a headache to manage.\u201d <span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/11\/china-invasion-war-game-navy-taiwan-strait-uss-port-royal\/\"><b>(RELATED: Here\u2019s How The Navy Responded To China\u2019s Mock Invasion Of Taiwan)<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7421321\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7421321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle Bachelet of the UN will reportedly visit Xinjiang in May. (REUTERS\/Denis Balibouse)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olsijazexhi.wordpress.com\/2021\/04\/22\/few-raw-materials-that-demonstrate-how-china-jails-muslims-in-xinjiang-only-because-they-practice-islam\/\">Dr. Olsi Jazexhi<\/a>, an Albanian journalist, told TheDCNF that China invited him on a similar tour of Xinjiang in 2019. Jazexhi, who is now an assistant professor at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iium.edu.my\/directory\/show\/10282\">International Islamic University Malaysia<\/a>, told TheDCNF he agreed to take the trip hoping to \u201cexpose the Western lies regarding China and its treatment of Muslim Uyghurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was suspicious of what we hear in the West about the Uyghurs,\u201d Jazexhi said. \u201cUnfortunately, I discovered that in Xinjiang, Muslim Uyghurs and other Turkic ethnic groups were being discriminated [against] and my initial assumption was wrong. [The Chinese] were using journalists and visitors like me to convince the rest of the world that China is fighting Islamic terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy advice to the U.N. members visiting Xinjiang would be to take with you experts on Islam who understand what Islam is and how it is practiced. They will enable you to understand the total prohibition that China has made on the practice of Islam and Turkic culture in Xinjiang,\u201d Jazexhi said.<\/p>\n<p>Bachelet\u2019s office did not respond to TheDCNF\u2019s request for comment. <span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/04\/china-taiwan-sanctions-bolton-chang-scissors\/\"><b>(RELATED: Did China Just Signal That It\u2019s On The Brink Of War?)<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Bachelet, the U.N.\u2019s Human Rights High Commissioner, will visit Xinjiang this month to investigate claims of human rights abuses. \u201cThe whole trip will be manipulated by China to show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":510,"featured_media":1482934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}