Metten also stressed the critical need for nations to hold China accountable for its ‘severe human rights violations’ during its fourth Universal Periodic Review, done by the UN Human Rights Council in January. Such as what’s happening in Tibet.

Several other nations seconded that opinion. Including Denmark, Finland and Sweden.

“The Chinese government’s ongoing policy of repression aims to eradicate the authentic and self-determined Tibetan culture. This policy must be stopped immediately,” Metten said.

  • I never said I have no sources, I said I know you’ll come up with some sort of excuse for ignoring any source I can dig up.

    But OK, I’ll bite. Here’s a UN report on the situation: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22273613/22-08-31-final-assesment.pdf

    Now’s the part where you say it’s obviously untrustworthy, and how China’s definition of “extremism” isn’t extremely vague and so broad as to be meaningless, and all reports of reproductive rights being violated are lies, etc etc.

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      How is any of this comparable to Nazi Germany? Violation of reproductive rights is literally CPC policy and was used on the Han majority for decades. Forced sterilization, forced abortion, all were used for enforcement of population control policy. You’re not criticizing the CPC’s treatment of Uyghurs, you’re criticizing the CPC’s policies in general. Conflating that with Nazi genocide is rather disingenuous, especially given that people haven’t been killed en masse (far from it).

      Second, Chinese extremism is pretty well-defiined: actions supportive of those involved in the 1992 bus bombings, 1997 bus bombings, the attempted airplane hijacking in 2008, the truck attack in 2008, the taxi attack in 2008, the stabbing attack in 2008, the bombing in 2010, the police station storming in 2011, the truck hijacking in 2011… Do I need to go on? Pretending that terrorism wasn’t a problem in Xinjiang in the past decade or two is simply wrong, and pretending that China’s policies haven’t basically eradicated domestic terrorism would also be wrong.