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BRITAIN’S communists are urging the labour movement not to rush to judgement on the Uighur question in China.
The Beijing government has been accused of “genocide” against the mostly Muslim 13 million-strong ethnicity living in the Xinjiang autonomous region in north-west China.
But Communist Party of Britain (CPB) general secretary Robert Griffiths told the party’s political committee on Wednesday evening that the charges of “genocide” are ideologically motivated, lack independent evidence and form part of the “new cold war” being waged against China.
He said that a major programme of investment and training in the region have lifted millions of Uighurs out of poverty and unemployment.
Security measures have put an end to a spate of terrorist attacks, by fundamentalist and separatist elements, he added.
Mr Griffiths said that the reports of “genocide” from a network of right-wing institutes and pressure groups funded by the US, British and Australian governments are recycled uncritically in the Western media.
The committee urged labour movement organisations in Britain to send fact-finding missions to Xinjiang and other parts of China, rather than repeat “fictitious propaganda.”
