Popular Front calls on world community to condemn violation of human rights of Uighur Muslims
New Delhi: Popular Front of India on Tuesday urged world leaders, human rights organizations, and world Muslim community to abandon their silence on the injustice and gross human rights violations being committed by the Chinese government against Turkic Muslims and other ethnic minorities in China.
In a press release issued by the organisation it said “Shocking reports have been emerging from China of systematic attempts by the government for ethnic cleansing of Muslim minority communities, especially the Uighur Muslims, from East Turkistan. People are led to live a life that is completely devoid of their liberties. They are sent to concentration camps if they are found to be involved in anything that is remotely religious like greeting Salam, abstaining from alcohol or even speaking their mother tongue.”
“Nearly two million people are reported to be detained in such camps that are reminiscent of Nazi concentration camps. In these camps which Chinese government advertises as ‘Vocational Training Centers’, detainees undergo inhuman torture during the interrogations and are subjected to brutal indoctrination tactics. Information regarding the inmates is not allowed to the media and even to their own family members, and after death, bodies of the inmates are not sent home” the press release added.
Calling on the world leaders including leaders of the neighboring Muslim countries the organisation added that they should not remain silent on the issue. It also added that countries like United States were reluctant to impose sanctions against China in the wake of the gross violation of human rights by the latter.
“It is ironical that Pakistan which is always vocal on issues of fate Muslims in some other countries are maintaining a criminal silence on the issue in order to appease the Chinese government, one of its strategic allies” it added.
The organisation called on world community to condemn the oppression and to call on their respective governments to put pressure on China.
It also questioned the silence on the part of civil liberties movements and political left in India when it comes to the matter of exposing Chinese government.
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Will vacate one of two assembly seats won in 10 days: BJP''s Suvendu
Kolkata (PTI): BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, who defeated West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Bhabanipur and secured Nandigram for three times in a row in the recent assembly polls, said on Wednesday that he would vacate one of the two constituencies within 10 days.
Adhikari also asserted that the party's central leadership would decide which constituency he would retain.
"I will vacate one seat within 10 days. The party will decide which one I retain. I will not forget my responsibility towards the people of Bhabanipur and Nandigram," he said.
Adhikari on Monday defeated Banerjee in Bhabanipur by over 15,000 votes, puncturing what was long seen as her safest political refuge and delivering a decisive psychological blow to the TMC, amid a sweeping BJP surge across West Bengal.
Addressing party workers and supporters in Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district, the BJP leader appealed to them not to take out victory processions immediately and instead maintain peace.
"Do not take out victory rallies now. Maintain peace and discipline. Celebrate after May 9, after taking permission," he told party workers.
State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Wednesday announced that the oath-taking ceremony of the new government will be held on May 9 at Brigade Parade Ground.
Referring to alleged attacks on BJP workers during the TMC regime, Adhikari said he would not forget the “atrocities" faced by them and assured them of taking appropriate action against perpetrators through legal processes.
"I was part of the 2011 ‘poribartan’ (change), and now I am part of the real change. I offer my gratitude to the people of Nandigram," Adhikari said.
He was referring to the TMC's victory in 2011 when the Mamata Banerjee party dismantled the 34-year Left Front regime in the state.
Adhikari offered prayers at a Hanuman statue in Nandigram and remembered the BJP workers, who had died in political violence.
"We will work in such a way that the BJP government in Bengal stays for 100 years," he said, expressing hope that the BJP’s vote share in the state would rise from the current 46 per cent to 60 per cent in future elections.
The BJP leader also assured residents of Nandigram of improved drinking water supply and better hospital and education infrastructure.
