Arsenal's Ozil condemns Muslim silence over UighursOzil added his voice to growing international condemnation of China for setting up a vast network of camps in Xinjiang aimed at homogenising the Uighur population to reflect China's majority Han cultureISTANBUL - Arsenal's Mesut Ozil, a German footballer of Turkish origin, on Friday expressed support for Uighurs in Xinjiang and criticised Muslim countries for their failure to speak up for them. Religious scholars are being killed one by one ... Brothers are forcefully being sent to camps," Ozil wrote in Turkish on his Twitter account. Rights groups and experts say more than one million Uighurs and people of other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities have been rounded up in the camps in the tightly-controlled region. After initially denying the camps existed, China describes them as vocational schools aimed at dampening the allure of Islamist extremism and violence. "I hope they ban Ozil's matches and business activities (in China)," wrote one Weibo user.

Source: Bangkok Post December 14, 2019 04:47 UTC