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| International Criminal Court won't investigate China's oppression of Uighurs |
| 2020-12-16 |
| [Washington Examiner] International Criminal Court officials won’t open an investigation into China’s repression of Uighur Muslims due to a lack of jurisdiction in the case. "Not good news for us," World Uighur Congress President Dolkun Isa told the Washington Examiner before acknowledging that "the ICC is not in a position to review China." ICC officials affirmed their position by rebuffing a request from a different Uighur Muslim diaspora group known as the East Turkestan Government in Exile, or the ETGE. Lawyers for the plaintiffs hoped that the court would mobilize against forced deportation of Uighurs from neighboring Cambodia and Tajikistan, which are ICC member-states, but ICC officials maintained that those deportations fell below the threshold of an international crime even if they are a "precursor" for the abuses in mainland China. "While the conduct of such officials may have served as a precursor to the subsequent alleged commission of crimes on the territory of China, over which the Court lacks jurisdiction," the ICC report said. "The conduct occurring on the territory of States Parties does not appear, on the information available, to fulfill material elements of the crime of deportation under article 7(1)(d) of the Statute." The diaspora group hopes to convince the court to reconsider by gathering more information about the forced deportations. "The prosecutor will be receiving further evidence of the rounding up of Uighurs abroad by the Chinese Government, and forcing them back into occupied East Turkistan (Xinjiang)," the ETGE wrote on Tuesday in response to the ICC announcement. "The Complaint makes clear that the crimes committed against the Uighur people have been widespread and systematic." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 The Chinese region of East Turkestan has been non-Han and largely Muslim (much like Tibet was non-Han and largely Buddhist.) China has been oppressing the Uighur for decades using the excuse of Muslim extremism (true, to a point) to help them ethnically cleanse the province for the Han. When the Han reach critical population density in British Columbia expect a similar path. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2020-12-16 16:24 |
| #1 China is the only country that knows how to treat its muslims right. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2020-12-16 09:43 |