China didn’t spare the Uyghurs even in times of pandemic, pushed them to Covid frontlines
I n a controversial decision the UN has appointed China to its Human Rights Council panel, where the communist nation with scant record for human rights will play a key role in selection of the UN’s investigators to monitor global civil and human rights violations. The investigations will look into freedom of speech, health, enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention-related human rights violations, of which, China is perhaps the world’s most guilty nation. Shockingly, the news of the aforementioned appointment has ironically came at a time when China has been accused of heightened abuse of human rights of the Uyghur Muslims in its Xinjiang province and also increased forced organ harvesting of the minority Muslim community to save the lives of coronavirus-infected Han population. According to reports, China has sent thousands of Uyghurs to its manufacturing powerhouses at Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangzi and Zhejiang to keep its factories running post the evacuation of the regular wor