When West Australian premier Mark McGowan brags about his state’s “world’s best” budget performance, the gargantuan elephant in the room is that it is almost completely funded by the Nazi Germany of the 21st century.
I’m referring, of course, to Communist China. Comparing them to one of the most notorious regimes in history might seem like hyperbole – until you examine the facts.
Well, there’s the dictator-for-life at the helm, the complete control of the media and citizenry, aggressive expansionism and brutal secret policing. Don’t forget, either, this is still the same regime which presided over the worst mass-murders in human history – and still openly venerates the monster behind them. The very fact that the margins for error in estimates of Mao’s death toll are themselves in the tens of millions speaks to how stupefying the tides of blood drenching the regime are.
Most importantly: this is still a regime dedicated to brutal genocide.
The Chinese government has breached every single article of the UN genocide convention in its treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang, and bears responsibility for committing genocide, according to a landmark legal report.
The 25,000-word report, published by a non-partisan US-based thinktank, is one of the first independent, non-government legal examination of China’s treatment of Uighurs under the 1948 genocide convention.
Deny it as it will, the evidence of China’s appalling crimes is piling up faster than bodies in a mass grave.
“The intent to destroy the Uighurs as a group is derived from objective proof, consisting of comprehensive state policy and practice, which President Xi Jinping, the highest authority in China, set in motion,” the report said.
The five acts are: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
As evidence, the report cited reports of mass deaths, selective death sentences, and long-term imprisonment of elders, systemic torture and cruel treatment including sexual abuse and torture, interrogations and indoctrination, the targeted detention of Uighur community leaders and people of childbearing age, forced sterilisation, family separation, mass labour transfer schemes, and the transfer of Uighur children to state-run orphanages and boarding schools.
“The persons and entities perpetrating the above-indicated acts of genocide are all state agents or organs – acting under the effective control of the state – manifesting an intent to destroy the Uighurs as a group within the meaning of article II of the Genocide convention,” the executive summary said.
The Guardian
The question now for governments and business leaders around the world – and especially in Australia and New Zealand – is: what are you going to do about it?
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