The Trump and Biden administrations have initiated an unsubstantiated genocide case against China. It has been opposed by White House s own legal experts. With
Written by Dan Steinbock, Difference GroupThe Trump and Biden administrations have initiated an unsubstantiated genocide case against China. It has been opposed by White House s own legal experts. With its dark roots, genocide politics mocks real genocides.
April 12, 2021 at 2:34 pm
It is a fact that rape and sexual abuse have been used as weapons of war throughout history. The lack of security leaves women and girls, in particular, more vulnerable than usual to violence. For a long time, this was just accepted as inevitable in conflicts, and few efforts were made to prosecute perpetrators of mass rapes and sexual violence. We saw this in Bosnia in the 1990s where, for example, the UNHCR reported that 50,000 women were raped by Bosnian Serbs as a war tactic.
The Geneva Convention has given individuals theoretical protection from rape and threatened acts of violence in conflict zones since 1946. However, it was not until 1998 that the UN passed a resolution classifying sexual violence in conflict, including rape, as a war crime.
By Chi Zao | People s Daily Online | Updated: 2021-02-19 17:10 Share CLOSE Turdigul Nur , a trainee who graduated from the vocational education and training center in Kashgar City. (Photo by Chinese MOF)
The only source behind several Western media outlets sensational reports accusing China of implanting female detainees with contraceptive IUDs in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has been found to have provided self-contradictory testimonies over the past years, while her claim of mass rape in local training centres has been dismissed by those who had previously studied and lived there.
On February 18, Tursunay Ziawudun, a so-called victim who claimed to have been gang-raped in a training center in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region told CNN that she was kicked and beaten by guards until she blacked out, and was also gang raped . She further said that the local authorities had also implanted Uygur women in the tr