Secretary-General Antonio Guterres raised the plight of an estimated 1 million Uighurs incarcerated in re-education camps in China during a recent meeting with the country’s president, Xi Jinping, the United Nations said Monday. Last week, Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth wrote a harsh op-ed in the Washington Post saying halfway through his five-year term Guterres “is becoming defined by his silence on human rights — even as serious rights abuses proliferate” including against the Uighurs. Roth said numerous governments have voiced concerns about China’s detention of the Uighurs “for forced indoctrination,” but “Guterres has not said a word about it in public. They are respect for China’s unity and territorial integrity, condemnation of terrorist attacks, “and that human rights must be fully respected in the fight against terrorism and in the prevention of violent extremism,” Dujarric said. She complained last month that she still hasn’t received approval from Beijing.

Source: National Post April 30, 2019 00:35 UTC