Xinjiang: State media defends China’s actions
The security situation in Xinjiang has been turned around recently and terror threats spreading from there to other provinces of China are also being eliminated. Peaceful and stable life has been witnessed again in all of Xinjiang
GLOBAL TIMES, in an editorial
BEIJING: Keeping Xinjiang free of turmoil is the “greatest human right”, China’s state media said on Monday, the first response to a United Nations report that said the province has been turned into a massive internment camp for the Uyghur Muslim minority.
China has turned Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) into a “no-rights zone” and a “massive internment camp” for Uyghurs, a UN meeting on human rights was told last Friday, raising concerns about disappeared members of the community. Hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs were sent to re-education camps in the name of the fighting religious extremism, the UN panel was told.
The nationalistic Global Times tabloid – responding to the UN report – defended the heavy security in Xinjiang but didn’t comment on allegations about the government running re-education camps.
“In the past few years, Xinjiang suffered a series of violent terrorist attacks. Young people were brainwashed by extremist thoughts and manipulated by terrorist organisations. Besides launching terror attacks in Xinjiang, these terrorists also penetrated inland provinces and started attacks in places such as Tiananmen Square of Beijing and Kunming Railway Station,” it said in an editorial.
“The security situation in Xinjiang has been turned around recently and terror threats spreading from there to other provinces of China are also being eliminated. Peaceful and stable life has been witnessed again in all of Xinjiang,” it said.
The response to the attacks was justified, the editorial indicated.“this achievement has come at a price that is being shouldered by people of all ethnicities in Xinjiang…xinjiang has been salvaged from the verge of massive turmoil. It has avoided the fate of becoming ‘China’s Syria’ or ‘China’s Libya’,” the editorial said.