“Welcoming Xi Jinping is a policy of complicity in the Uighur genocide” | EUROtoday

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At a time when the Russian state is legitimately banned from the Paris Olympic Games and really severely sanctioned by the Europeans for the warfare of aggression it’s waging in Ukraine, at a time when its lately re-elected chief, Vladimir Putin, is the topic of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC), Emmanuel Macron receives in France Xi Jinping, the president of a rustic, China, which continues with full impunity its genocidal coverage towards the Uighurs.

China continues to make use of compelled labor and topics a whole bunch of 1000’s of Uighurs to slavery, tens of millions of Uighurs have been imprisoned in camps and prisons due to their ethno-religious id, households of French individuals of Uighur origin are nonetheless detained in China, nearly all Uighurs in France have misplaced all contact with their family members and dwell below fixed risk and intimidation.

But France welcomes, within the title of a proclaimed reopening of the nation after the Covid years and a coverage of rapprochement with China, the architect and first particular person liable for the genocide which targets my individuals and inexorably destroys them.

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Our nights stuffed with nightmares, our dislocated genealogies, our feeling of helplessness and our worry of being erased from the historical past of humanity subsequently haven’t any which means for Emmanuel Macron. Invite the genocidal ogre to the Elysée, share a while “more personal” with him, all this to enhance our business relations and to have a good time sixty years of“diplomatic friendships”what a curious banquet of ashes!

Concentration camps and prisons

But what, precisely, will he nonetheless have the fitting to debate with Xi Jinping? From the deliberate annexation of Taiwan? Tibetan youngsters taken from their households and positioned in state orphanages? The repression of dissident voices and political prisoners? Uighurs victims, in Europe and in France, of transnational repression? Ghost Chinese police stations that violate the territorial sovereignty of France?

On January 20, 2022, in a solemn decision, the National Assembly condemned the genocide of the Uighurs, acknowledged that the Chinese regime imprisoned and tortured Uighurs, Kazakhs and different Turkic peoples in focus camps and prisons, that Uighur ladies have been forcibly sterilized, that the Uighur demographic had fallen by half in report time – in some prefectures, this drop is 84%; she acknowledged that a whole bunch of 1000’s of Uighur youngsters have been separated from their households to be assimilated into Chinese tradition in state orphanages or in Han households.

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