Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
I find it humorous when I hear this...
Believe me when I say that America has never cared much for human rights...
Believe you!
Your constant criticism of America and Israel while ignoring the atrocities at the hands of Xi and the CCP and your continued support of them…...and you say, “believe me!” 🤯 This I find this very HUMOROUS……propaganda at it’s best!
https://2017-2021.state.gov/chinas-disregard-for-human-rights/index.htmlRepression in Xinjiang
The PRC has taken its decades-long repressive policies in Xinjiang to the extreme since April 2017, detaining more than one million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, and members of religious minority groups in internment camps in a systematic effort to eradicate their ethnic and cultural identity and religious beliefs, and control their population growth. Countless publicly available reports of torture, rape, forced ingestion of drugs, sexual assault and other horrific abuses occurring in these camps have been documented based on the experiences of those who have escaped. Outside the camps, the CCP’s repression of minorities includes coercive practices such as pervasive surveillance and involuntary mass collection of biometric data from innocent civilians, state-sponsored forced labor, and compulsory stays by CCP officials in Uyghur homes intended to prevent the observance of religious practices. Members of these minority groups are forcibly relocated to camps and factories and required to renounce their ethnic identities, religious beliefs, and cultural and religious practices. In addition, children are removed from their families and forced into state-run indoctrination facilities. Women and girls are routinely subject to forced marriages and other abuses, including forced a******n, forced sterilization, and involuntary birth control implantation. Leaked government documents corroborate the coercive nature of these camps and the CCP’s systematic campaign against these men, women, and children.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/13/china-in-darkest-period-for-human-rights-since-tiananmen-says-rights-groupHelen Davidson in Taipei
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Wed 13 Jan 2021 06.00 EST
China is in the midst of its darkest period for human rights since the Tiananmen Square massacre, Human Rights Watch has said in its annual report.
But 2020 was also the year that world governments found “safety in numbers” to push back on China’s policies of repression, with less fear of retaliation, it said.
Worsening persecutions of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Tibet, targeting of whistleblowers, the crackdown on Hong Kong and attempts to cover up the c****av***s outbreak were all part of the deteriorating situation under President Xi Jinping, the organisation said.
“This has been the darkest period for human rights in China since the 1989 massacre that ended the Tiananmen Square democracy movement,” the report on worldwide human rights abuses said.
“The Chinese government’s authoritarianism was on full display in 2020 as it grappled with the deadly c****av***s outbreak first reported in W***n,” the report said, describing the initial cover-up of the outbreak by authorities and the punishment of whistleblower doctors including Li Wenliang and journalists such as Zhang Zhan, who reported on the W***n lockdown and on surveillance and harassment of v***s victims’ families .
At the same time, “Beijing’s repression – insisting on political loyalty to the Chinese C*******t party – deepened across the country”, it said.
“In Xinjiang, Turkic Muslims continue to be arbitrarily detained on the basis of their identity, while others are subjected to forced labour, mass surveillance, and political indoctrination. In Inner Mongolia, protests broke out in September when education authorities decided to replace Mongolian with Mandarin Chinese in a number of classes in the region’s schools.”
And in Tibet, authorities continued “to severely restrict religious freedom, speech, movement and assembly, and fail to redress popular concerns about mining and land grabs by local officials, which often involve intimidation and unlawful use of force by security forces”.
The demand for political loyalty also intensified in the special administrative region of Hong Kong. After more than six months of protests in 2019, Beijing implemented the internationally criticised national security law on the city, outlawing even benign acts of opposition as crimes of secession, s******n, foreign collusion and terrorism. About 90 people have been arrested under the law since June.
Internet censorship, mass surveillance and efforts to “sinicise” religion also deepened across China, the report said. Prominent critics, human rights defenders and journalists were jailed, disappeared or forced into exile, many accused of “inciting subversion” or “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” – a common charged levelled against dissidents and activists.
“Since Xi Jinping came to power the repression has gotten worse and worse overall, in every aspect of Chinese society you can see how the party is becoming more intolerant of any kind of independent activity,” said HRW researcher Yaqiu Wang.