The Report the U.N. Didn't Want You to See

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The vast majority of Chinese people come from a single ethnic group—the Han. So what’s life like for the millions of people who aren’t Han? Tough, it’s fair to say. Ask any Tibetan.

But one group has been singled out for particular persecution, the Uyghurs. There are about 12 million Uyghurs, they mostly live in a province called Xinjiang and mostly Muslim.

And the Chinese appear to be trying to wipe out at least their culture. Many countries have condemned the Chinese for this, but the United Nations has been slow, slow, slow to take any action.

That’s finally changed with a new report.

Joining us to talk about the situation are two people working for Human Rights Watch, Louis Charboneau, at the UN, and Sophie Richardson, who works on issues in China.

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0:00.0	Love this podcast support this show through the a cast supporter feature
0:05.1	It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. People live in a world with their own making.
0:25.0	Frankly, that seems to be the problem.
0:31.0	Welcome to Angry Planet. Hello and I'm Matthew Galt.
0:45.0	The vast majority of Chinese people come from a single ethnic group, the Han.
0:50.0	So what's life like for the millions of people
0:56.2	who aren't Han? Tough, it's fair to say. Ask any Tibetan. But one group has been singled out for particular persecution and it's the Uyghurs.
1:07.2	They're about 12 million Uyghurs and they live mostly in Xinjiang province and most of them are Muslim. The Chinese appear to be trying to wipe out at least their culture. Many countries have condemned the Chinese for this, but the United Nations has been slow, slow,
1:26.0	to take any action.
1:28.6	That's finally changed with a new report.
1:31.7	Joining us to talk about the situation are two people who work for Human Rights Watch.
1:36.0	Louis Charbonneau and Sophie Richardson.
1:40.0	Thank you so much for joining us.
1:42.0	We've talked about the Wigers once before on the Thank you so much for joining us.
1:43.0	We've talked about the Wagers once before on the show,
1:45.6	but would one of you be able to sum up the situation as it is now?
1:50.2	Sure, I can take that one.
1:51.7	Human Rights Watch has spent 25 years documenting
1:54.8	gross human rights violations in this region
1:57.4	that mostly have to do with the Central Chinese
2:00.3	government's perception of a distinct Uyghur identity as a threat.
2:04.4	And this really accelerated in about 2014
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