America's visa ban on China on the oppression of Weigar Muslims

 09 Oct 2019 ( News Bureau )
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The US has said that it is going to impose visa restrictions on Chinese authorities because of the persecution of the Muslim population in China.

Earlier on Monday, the US blacklisted 28 Chinese institutions working in the US in the case of harassment with Weigar Muslims in China's Xinjiang province.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the Chinese government was carrying out "a highly repressive campaign". At the same time, China has described these allegations as baseless.

In a statement, Pompeo has accused the Chinese government of harassing Vigar, Kazakh, Kyrgyz Muslims and other minority Muslim communities.

He said, "A large number of people have been kept in detention camps, they are monitored at a high level. People have strict control over their religious and cultural identity. ''

China has described the US step as unacceptable.

On Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuan said, "The issues the US has raised by citing human rights are nothing at all here."

"All these accusations are nothing but a ploy of America, so that it can interfere in China's internal affairs."

The visa restrictions that the US has imposed will apply to the officials of the Chinese government and the Communist Party, along with their family members.

There is currently a trade war between the United States and China. China recently sent a team to the United States to discuss trade war.

A major security operation has been going on in the last few years in China's far western province of Xinjiang.

Human rights groups and the United Nations have said that China has imprisoned more than 1 million Weigar and other ethnic minorities in the province. There are prison houses here in a very large area.

There are allegations that in these detainees Weigar Muslims are forced to leave Islam, speak only the Chinese Mandarin language and follow the rules of China's leftist government.

But to the contrary, China says that it is running a training camp in Xinjiang, through which training the Weigar Muslims will help them to get jobs and get involved in Chinese society. Through this training, he also talks about curbing extremism.

Many other countries, including the US, have strongly condemned the camps built in China's Xinjiang province.

Last week, Pompeo held a press conference in the Vatican alleging that China asks its citizens to worship the government instead of worshiping their God.

Earlier in July, more than 20 countries signed a joint letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council condemning China's treatment of Weigar and other Muslims.

Meanwhile, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is also visiting China these days. A few days ago, when Prime Minister Imran Khan was asked questions on Weigar Muslims living in China, he could not give any answer.

In an interview to Al-Jazeera on 14 September, the journalist asked Imran Khan that there was a lot of criticism in the West about the treatment of Weigar Muslims in China. Have you ever formally discussed the matter with Chinese President Xi Jinping?

In response to this question, Imran Khan had said, "You know that we are facing many problems within our country." I don't even know much about it. For the last one year, we have been struggling with a bad economy and now Kashmir. But I can say that China is our best friend. ''

Weigars are actually Muslims belonging to Turkey. About 45 percent of the population of Xinjiang province is Weigar Muslims. In addition, 40 percent of Han Chinese.

After China took over East Turkistan in 1949, a large number of Han Chinese and Weigar Muslims felt threatened by their culture, due to which these communities started migrating.

Xinjiang is officially an autonomous region of China, such as Tibet in the south.

 

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