Israel should stop its "collective punishment" of Gaza's civilians with actions beyond self-defence, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, warning it would worsen regional tensions and lead to humanitarian disaster. In a call with Saudi Arabian counterpart, Wang also condemned the continued Israeli retaliation to a shock attack a week ago by Palestinian militant group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. "Israel's actions have gone beyond self-defence," Wang told Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Sa
  • can
    52·
    1 year ago

    The UN?

    The OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China is a report published on 31 August 2022 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) concerning the treatment of Uyghurs and other largely Muslim groups in China. The report concluded that “[t]he extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim groups, pursuant to law and policy, in context of restrictions and deprivation more generally of fundamental rights enjoyed individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.”[1][

    • Joncash2@lemmy.ml
      32·
      1 year ago

      Exactly, which is similar to what the UN says about the US detaining African Americans.

      https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2016/01/statement-media-united-nations-working-group-experts-people-african-descent

      https://legal.un.org/ilc/sessions/71/pdfs/english/cah_wg_epad.pdf

      NOT that China is genociding the Uyghurs.

      Now, I’m expecting one of two responses,

      1. WHATABOUTISM RAWR RAWR that we should ignore US crimes because China bad.

      2. Dismissals that China totally arrests more even though we have no data on that.

      That said, I do apologize for not making that clear in my original statement. I wasn’t trying to say that the UN found no problems at all, only that the problems it found isn’t special or unique, but most importantly that it does not constitute genocide that the US is insisting is happening.

      • can
        31·
        1 year ago

        Why do people always assume I can’t be appalled by China and the states simultaneously? It’s not one or the other.

        Maybe because people assume I’m American (my username is partially because of Canada) . But even so, I freely admit my country of Canada was actively built upon genocide. And given the amount of missing and murdered indigenous women it’s still going on at least passively.

        I guess it also depends on what you consider a “genocide”. I don’t see how what China’s doing is any different from what Canada’s done.

        • Joncash2@lemmy.ml
          23·
          1 year ago

          Well for one there’s no evidence of murder. That’s actually my whole point. For all the complaining, the people who actually visited, the UN and Muslim nations have not seen any evidence of killing.