A UN rapporteur considers the complaints against China for forced labor in Xinjiang "reasonable"

MADRID, 17 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The United Nations rapporteur Tomoya Obokata considers "reasonable" the denunciations of international organizations about forced labor and repression against ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region, where the Uyghurs reside, a minority of Muslim confession.

Obokata considers it "reasonable" to conclude that episodes of forced labor have been recorded among Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities in sectors such as agriculture and manufacturing in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region.

Likewise, it considers that there are two fundamental mechanisms by which forced labor is carried out: vocational training centers, where minorities are detained and subjected, and the labor transfer system.

"Similar deals have also been detected in the Tibet Autonomous Region, where an extensive labor transfer program has mostly displaced farmers, herders and other rural workers into low-skilled and low-paid jobs," said Obokata, at the UN of the study on new forms of slavery.

For his part, the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Wang Wenbin, dismissed the report on Wednesday, assuring that the UN special rapporteur has abused his power to "discredit China and act as a political tool of the armed forces." anti-China", as collected by Bloomberg.

The Chinese authorities have launched a series of measures in the Xinjiang region that have caused friction between the Asian giant and the international community, especially the United States, which has come to accuse Beijing of committing human rights violations and even genocide. against the Uighur population.