{"id":14499,"date":"2009-09-01T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=14499"},"modified":"2023-04-06T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:44:25","slug":"eu-parliament-rights-head-calls-for-uyghur-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/09\/01\/eu-parliament-rights-head-calls-for-uyghur-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament Rights Head Calls For Uyghur Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A U.S.-based Uyghur group issued this photo soon after the Xinxiang violence erupted, showing clashes in Urumqi.<\/p><\/div>\n

September 01, 2009<\/div>\n

BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The head of the European Parliament’s human rights committee has backed a call for an independent international inquiry into deadly riots in northwest China’s Xinjiang region in July.<\/p>\n

“We have got some quite worrying information about events of July 5,” Heidi Hautala told a joint news conference with Rebiya Kadeer, exiled leader of China’s largely Muslim Uyghur ethnic group who earlier addressed the parliamentary committee.<\/p>\n

“I believe that there is a case for an independent international investigation so that all human rights violations from all sides can be cleared and investigated,” Hautala said.<\/p>\n

She said such an inquiry should be conducted by the United Nations with the backing of the European Union.<\/p>\n

In Xinjiang’s worst ethnic violence in decades, Uyghur rioters attacked majority Han Chinese in Urumqi on July 5 after taking to the streets to protest against attacks on Uyghur workers at a factory in south China in June in which two Uyghurs died. Han Chinese in Urumqi sought revenge two days later.<\/p>\n

The violence left 197 people dead, mostly Han Chinese, and wounded more than 1,600, according to official figures.<\/p>\n

Uyghurs, a Turkic people who are largely Muslim and share linguistic and cultural bonds with Central Asia, make up almost half of Xinjiang’s 20 million people.<\/p>\n

Kadeer said some 10,000 Uyghurs were missing following the riots and accused the Chinese Communist government of pursuing a policy resembling “cultural genocide” in what Uyghurs call East Turkestan.<\/p>\n

She called in July on the international community to send an independent investigative team to the site of the riots.<\/p>\n

“The arrests and detentions continue,” she told the news conference, adding that most were teenage students who, she said, were being tortured in detention.<\/p>\n

Kadeer accused the Chinese authorities of using the international battle against Islamist militancy and the global economic downturn as pretexts to repress the Uyghur people. <\/span><\/p>\n

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