Our main trading partner is involved in systematic torture. What now?

So what does Australia do now? Now that the UN commissioner for human rights has published the formal finding – that our main trading partner is inflicting all manner of systematic torture on its Uighur people.on China’s repression of its Uighur minority, and some other predominantly Muslim groups.After visiting China and interviewing a wide range of former detainees, she concluded that the Chinese government was committing mass violations of human rights. Still.

– visited Australia and said that more than 1 million Uighurs had been arbitrarily locked up in mass concentration camps, including all 37 members of her extended family, including 11 children under the age of 10.“Children aged two to 12 are taken from their families into state custody, girls are given forced sterilisation so they can’t give birth to any more Uighur children,” she told me through an interpreter last year.

So what’s new about the UN report? “What was new were the first-hand interviews, and that does corroborate previous findings,” says the Asia director for Human Rights Watch, Elaine Pearson. “These are most serious offences – the report clearly says they may be crimes against humanity.” So what does Australia do now? According to the tiny Australian Uighur community of some 2500 people, and human rights activists, this is what Australia should do.

Why should the world’s worst torturers be allowed to enjoy the benefits and liberties of a country dedicated to protecting individual rights? In the words of a government explanation, these sanctions are to “ensure that we do not become an isolated, attractive safe haven for such people and entities, and their ill-gotten gains”. What a good idea!. That’s one of the many abuses inflicted on the Uighurs by Xi’s regime.

These are all modest yet practical and positive steps that Wong and her colleagues in like-minded countries should consider. Would Xi respond with yet more sanctions against Australia? Maybe. But maybe not; the earlier ones have only backfired on Beijing.

who cares? do we have to lose trade with China over few 100s Weiga? Let them fight themselves

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Our main trading partner is involved in systematic torture. What now?According to the tiny Australian Uyghur community of some 2500 people, and human rights activists, this is what we should do. Like any 'well governed' Western nation, we shall keep our eyes closed and just have a slight whinge during parliament sittings and to the media. History repeating itself much. Aren't we over due for an ELE? our neighbour has invaded west papua..........why is there no interest in OZ media Everyone’s known this for around 10 years and have still kept doing business with them. Any outrage expressed now will be faux.
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