GENEVA — The UN rights chief has miserably failed to address China’s “genocide” against the Uyghur minority, a leading campaigner told AFP, demanding that a long-delayed report on abuses be released “immediately”. Uyghur campaigner Rushan Abbas, who is American, decried that Michelle Bachelet had, to date, been so restrained in her criticism of the well-reported rights violations taking place in China’s far-western Xinjiang region. She said she had been very hopeful when Bachelet, a former Chilean president and torture survivor, became the UN rights chief in 2018. “We thought she was going to remember and defend justice,” she said, lamenting that instead Bachelet has been all but “silent”. The UN’s lack of action “has been a huge disappointment for Uyghurs, and now they are being a huge disappointment for President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 08, 2022 00:50 UTC