WHILE the alleged violations of the human rights of the Uyghur Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, China happened more than a year ago, it came to the fore once more when the United States raised it in the recently concluded 51st UN Human Rights Council session which took place from September 12 to Oct. 7, 2022. The US and a small group of Western countries, including Britain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, presented a draft proposal to hold a special debate over the human rights situation in China's Xinjiang region at the council's next session in early 2023.

The readers must be reminded of just how untiring the US is in its hegemonic designs so that what is otherwise an insignificant incident already overtaken by events must be revived once more. The US proposal at the Human Rights Council session was complete with satellite images which the US took and promoted worldwide as concentration camps for some 2 million Uyghur Muslims from 2015 up to 2020. Also in the proposal were reiterations of allegations of atrocities committed against the Uyghur consisting of: 'interrogation and torture, corporal punishment, religious persecution, sexual violence, inhumane medical treatment, indoctrination, prohibitions on detainees speaking their native tongue, compulsory labor, forced birth control, abortion, among other abuses.'