Lecturing: Arrogance and Ideological Prejudice Against China

"We demonstrate conclusively that the policies, the law, the practices, and the campaigns in the region amounts to genocide exactly as laid out in the Genocide Convention [of the UN]."

"It puts the onus on governments, the 151 other state parties to the Genocide Convention, who have obligations under the treaty."

"The question is, will they have the courage to now act in the face of what is undoubtedly a systemic evil and a genocide?"

"We know that countries across the world including Canada are now implicated in complicity in genocide. And so that's actually a crime in itself."

"We've done the legwork and I hope that our government [Canada] and other governments will do the right thing."

"We need to make sure that we are moving forward appropriately and actually following up with the kinds of actions that are going to put an end to human rights abuses and that means working with our allies."

Yonah Diamond, legal counsel, The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights

 

"China has simultaneously pursued a dual systematic campaign of forcibly sterilizing Uyghur women of child-bearing age and interning Uyghur men of child-bearing years, preventing the regenerative capacity of the group and evincing an intent to biologically destroy the group as such."

Wallenberg Centre Report

A file photo shows a Uighur woman with children in China's northwest Xinjiang region   AFP

 

In 1948 the UN Convention on Genocide was created, responding to the revealed horrors of the Holocaust. The convention defines genocide quite specifically, making it quite clear that countries have a moral responsibility to act in response to another nation's embarking on genocidal actions impacting their population. This, in recognition that the world acted as a disinterested bystander when Nazi Germany embarked on its Final Solution remedy to the presence of Jews in Europe.

Signed by 152 countries in the world order, signees include both China and Canada. China, infamously, is conducting a campaign of cultural genocide augmented by a slow-motion ethnic genocide in the forced sterilization of their Turkic Muslim population in Xinjiang. Uyghur women, claims Chinese authorities in self-defence, are being gifted with better health prospects for their future, not having to bear children. 

China is in violation of the UN Genocide Convention through its program of imprisonment and forced sterilization of the Uyghur people. A new paper produced by the Raoul Wallenberg Centre and the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy which details the steady disintegration of the human rights of the Chinese Uyghurs. The international community has become aware of the situation and has broadly condemned Beijing for its institutionalized effort to eradicate the culture, heritage and religious base of Uyghurs.

Source: ‘Strengthening patriotism education and building a bridge of national unity’ (加强爱国主义教育搭建民族团结连心桥), China Ethnic Religion Net (中国民族宗教网), 7 November 2019

In publishing the conclusion of this study the Wallenberg Centre has called for Canada to enact sanctions against the Chinese Communist Party members involved in the campaign through the Magnitsky Act, beginning with trade sanctions against China, along with banning goods from the Xinjiang region known to be produced through slave labour. Relocation of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is another call gaining momentum, to deprive Beijing of the legitimacy of their human rights infractions.

 

Effort taken to destroy an ethnic group need not necessarily take place through mass executions; a systemic agenda to destroy a race of people through forced sterilization represents yet another method of eliminating a group viewed as a nuisance or a threat to national unity. Canada's Parliament, in fact, voted unanimously several weeks earlier to name Beijing's campaign of internment, slave labour and forced sterilizations against its Uyghur population as a genocide. All members of Parliament, with the exception of the prime minister and members of his cabinet abstaining.

 

Source: ‘Municipal United Front Work Department’s “Pomegranate Seed” Night School: a look into Qingdao Taekwang’s Mandarin classes’ (市委统战部’石榴籽’夜校 走进青岛泰光举办普通话培训班), Laixi United Front (莱西统一战线), WeChat, 1 July 2019,

 

China denies any such accusations in spite of volumes of evidence, explaining that the mass internment centres in the country are in fact, re-education facilities and vital training centres. China's ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu, informed Canadian journalists the suggestion his government was in pursuit of a genocide solution to a troublesome minority represented the "lies of the century". Yet through meticulous research the report finds the CCP actively working to erase Uyghur culture.

A program is underway whereby Uyghur children are separated from their families and dispatched to other distant parts of the country to diminish contact with relatives and others like themselves. The report drew on the research of a wide range of experts, among whom were former Liberal cabinet minister and human rights activist Irwin Cotler, along with former Liberal cabinet ministers, Allan Rock and Lloyd Axworthy, all campaigning on behalf of human rights.

Britain's ambassador to Beijing, Caroline Wilson, was summoned to appear before China's foreign ministry for questioning and to receive formal objections to an "inappropriate" article she had written defending international media coverage on China. Her article, written in Mandarin was posed on the official WeChat account of the British embassy in Beijing. In her article, Ambassador Wilson explained that journalists' reports on China reflected "good faith" in monitoring government. "The whole article is full of 'lecturer' arrogance and ideological prejudice", she was informed by the Chinese ministry.

Note: Multiple dormitory buildings and a teaching building appear to be completely fenced in and isolated in a style that resembles other political indoctrination camps. Additionally, five small factory warehouse buildings have been constructed in the enclosed area. Source: ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre.