Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani today expressed serious concern over the plight of Chinese Muslims in Uighur, China.
“Although international media is almost silent about what ishappening in Uighur community of China, but whatever little information,trickling down through social media and a few media houses, is not onlydisturbing but alarming as well. Thousands of Muslims have been imprisoned andmade captive for years together in large camps and godowns. They are deprivedof humanely treatment. They are not allowed to meet their family members. Theirfamilies even don’t know why and where their loved ones are detained. Theirbeard is shaved off and women are not allowed to wear Hijabs,” Geelani said ina statement.
He said, “Recent reports of ill-treatment of Muslims in theholy month of Ramadan are heart wrenching. Muslims are forced to eat and drinkduring the day time at their work places. They are compelled to keep theirhotels and eateries open despite their resistance. They are not allowed toperform their religious obligations like Salah and fasts.”
Hurriyat (G) chairman said, “This is the worst form ofmajoritarianism, oppression andreligious hatred, which is enough to send shock waves down the spine of everyconscious human.”
He said, “Muslims are forced to migrate from their ownhomeland, under a well planned conspiracy. Conducive atmosphere is created bythe jingoistic media and fascist forces to legalize and legitimize their exit.”
Recalling the genocide of a small Muslim minority recentlyin Myanmar where these helpless and innocent believers were burnt alive, theirwomen folk gang raped and even kids put to sky high flames, Geelani said, “Despite all this, the champions of democracy, those fighting the oppressionthemselves for decades, maintained criminal silence on this state operatedmilitary onslaught against a minority.”
He said, “Horrifying nightmares of this ethnic cleansingwere still echoing in our minds, when pathetic stories of Chinese Muslims fromUighur community started to pour in, that too in this wholly month of Ramadan.”
Geelani appealed the world bodies especially United Nationand OIC to take these disturbing reports from Uighur China very seriously andrescue this helpless minority of Muslims.
He also appealed to the government, its opposition andpeople of Pakistan to use their good offices of the Pak-China friendship tohelp their brethren out of this suffocating situation.