Numerous
major media outlets, from Reuters to The Intercept,
have claimed that the United Nations has reports that the Chinese
government is holding as many as 1 million Uighur Muslims in
“re-education camps.” But a close examination of these news
stories, and of the evidence behind them — or the lack thereof —
demonstrates that the extraordinary claim is simply not true.
A
spokesperson from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights (OHCHR) confirmed in a statement to the Grayzone that the
allegation of Chinese “camps” was not made by the United Nations,
but rather by a member of an independent committee that does not
speak for the UN as a whole. That member happened to be the only
American on the committee, and one with no background of scholarship
or research on China.
Moreover,
this accusation is based on the thinly sourced reports of a Chinese
opposition group that receives funding from foreign governments and
is closely tied to right-wing dissidents.
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