"Uyghur rights groups, including the Campaign for Uyghurs in Washington, DC, and the World Uyghur Congress, based in Germany, are calling on U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet to resign after her long-delayed visit to China turned into a whitewash of the Uyghur genocide.
Bachelet did offer some mild criticism of China’s treatment of the Uyghurs after her visit, and stated her trip was not meant to be an 'investigation.' Chinese state media treated the visit as exactly that, crowing that Bachelet had vindicated the regime in Beijing and exposed human rights complaints from the Uyghurs as 'conspiracy theories.'
Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Tuesday quoted Uyghur leaders who were outraged at Bachelet for refusing to challenge China’s claims that the massive concentration camps littering Xinjiang were 'vocational training centers,' and that Beijing’s repressive campaigns against the Uyghurs were justifiable as 'deradicalization’ and 'anti-terrorism' programs.
Campaign for Uyghurs executive director Rushan Abbas denounced Bachelet’s heavily stage-managed trip to Xinjiang as a 'Potemkin-style sham,' a reference to the infamous Russian practice of building lovely fake villages to conceal poverty and misery.
'The high commissioner has disgraced herself and her office by refusing to investigate China’s genocide and adopting, repeating the Chinese regime’s narrative, further cementing their propaganda in the U.N.,' Abbas told RFA.
Abbas said Bachelet should resign because 'her comments seem custom-made for Beijing’s propaganda machine, and she neglects the duties of her office and the founding principle of the U.N.'...”