Justice: International Criminal Court refuses to investigate Uighurs in China
Justice: International Criminal Court refuses to investigate Uighurs in China
Prosecutors argue China is not a member of the ICC
On the Uighurcase, the International Criminal Court (ICC) cannot do anything legally. The Hague-based prosecutors refused to investigate the situation of the Muslim minority in China's Xinjiang region, as China is not a member of the ICC. According to a report published on Monday by the office of the Attorney General, Fatou Bensouda, an investigation is therefore impossible.
More than a million people, mostly Muslim, have been interned there in "camps," human rights groups say. China, for its part, claims that these are "professional training centres" designed to help people find jobs and thus distance them from religious extremism.
With regard to forced deportations of Uighur populations to China from Tajikistan and Cambodia,the prosecutor's office said that "there is not enough evidence at this stage" to launch investigations. Members of the exiled Uighur community believed that Tajikistan and Cambodia had parties to the Treaty of Rome that was the origin of the Court in 2002 and the events had taken place in their territories, and the ICC could launch investigations into these denounced deportations.
"Camps" vs. "Professional Training Centres"
Uighurs are the main ethnic group in Xinjiang, a huge region of China that has common borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan. Regularly hit by deadly attacks, attributed by Beijing to separatists or Uighur Islamists, the region is under heavy police surveillance.
Source:- Flash News and News Agencies