ABD’nin Çin’in batı Sincan eyaletinde çoğunluğu Müslüman olan azınlığa karşı soykırım ve insanlığa karşı suç işlediğine ilişkin açıklamasının, bu hafta Çin Dışişleri Bakanı Wang Yi’yi yüksek bir törenle onurlandıran 57 uluslu İslam İşbirliği Teşkilatı üzerinde çok az etkisi olduğu görülüyor. seviye forumu.

Ev sahibi Pakistan tarafından davet edilen Wang, İslamabad’daki İİT Dışişleri Bakanları Konseyi’nin 48. toplantısına özel konuk olarak katıldı ve zirve açılışında konuştu. Perşembe günü, Taliban liderliğindeki geçici hükümeti Çin yatırımı ve desteği için istekli olan Afganistan’a sürpriz bir ziyaretle devam etti.

The confluence of events was distressing to the Campaign for Uyghurs, a Washington-based rights group, which condemned both Wang’s attendance at the summit and OIC’s silence on China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority, including mass incarceration in so-called reeducation camps.

“It was appalling to see that Pakistan invited Wang Yi as a ‘guest of honor,’ while Uyghur Muslims do not have the right to identify as Muslims or practice Islam,” Campaign for Uyghurs said on its website.

According to Hasan Askari, an international affairs analyst, Pakistan’s invitation to the Chinese foreign minister at the OIC summit as an observer is part of an OIC tradition that allows the host country to invite high level diplomats from non-member OIC countries.

The U.S. accused China of genocide and crimes against humanity in the Muslim majority Xinjiang region in western China, including forced labor, sterilization of Muslim women and arbitrary detention of more than 1 million Uyghur Muslims in internment camps.

Beijing denies the allegations and says people of all ethnic groups live happily in Xinjiang.

The OIC summit addressed the plight of Rohingya Muslims as well as Muslims in Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories, Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere, but mostly ignored the Uyghur genocide in China, the Campaign for Uyghurs said.

Only Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu brought it up.

“In China, Uyghurs and other Muslims have difficulties protecting their religious rights and cultural identity,” Cavusoglu said at the OIC meeting. “Is it right to ignore the situation of the Uyghurs?”

Turkish politicians are usually the most outspoken defenders of Uyghur rights among Muslim politicians, said Robert Bianchi, professor of international law at the University of Chicago, because of their ethnic and cultural ties throughout Central Asia.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party “is particularly sensitive to demands from right-wing nationalists who are junior partners in his governing coalition,” Bianchi said. “He can’t survive without their support, so he often agrees to accept more Uyghur refugees and to speak out against Chinese repression.”

At the summit, Wang said that his country pledged to provide 300 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Islamic countries.

Washington merkezli Uygur Araştırmaları Merkezi’nin yönetici direktörü Abdulhakim İdris’e göre, Müslüman çoğunluklu birçok ülke finansal yatırım adına Çin’den milyarlarca dolar alıyor.

Uygurlar tarafından Xinjiang’ı arayan İdris, “Çin’den milyarlarca dolar alarak, bu ülkeler Doğu Türkistan’da Uygur Müslümanlarına yönelik soykırım mezalimine sessiz kalmaya zorlanmakla kalmıyor, aynı zamanda Pekin’den ÇHC’nin istediğini yapmaları emrediliyor” dedi. ‘ Doğu Türkistan’ın tercih edilen ismi.