Washington accuses Beijing of having interned over a million muslim uyghurs and members of other minority groups in “concentration camps”.
The United States imposed Friday, the sanctions to a large paramilitary organization in the region, china’s Xinjiang, accusing him of violations of the rights of Uyghurs and other members of muslim minorities.
The u.s. Treasury announced the freeze of any assets in the United States of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, subordinate to the chinese communist Party”, which conducts its own facilities, universities and the media in this region of the north-west of China.
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Washington, like other western countries and many international organizations, accuses Beijing of having interned over a million muslim uyghurs and members of other minority groups in “concentration camps”.
Arrests “arbitrary”
China denies this figure and says that it is the vocational training centres, intended to help people to find a job in order to keep her away from the temptation of islamist extremism.
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The sanctions, the Treasury also aimed a former political commissar of the paramilitary group, Sun Jinlong, and his commander Pen Jiarui, who is also vice-secretary of the chinese communist Party.
They are all targeted due to “serious violations of human rights against ethnic minorities in Xinjiang,” said the Treasury in a press release, citing “arbitrary arrests, mass” and “physical abuse serious”.
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“The United States is determined to use all their financial powers, to make accountable those who violate human rights in Xinjiang and throughout the world”, warned the secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin.
