A.S.M Riad Arif writes for DOT :
Though we are living at the very high age of civilization states are remain passive for ensuring the rights of the minority and ethnic populace. The ethnic’s communities are oppressed by the Nation state all around the globe. The psychology of the state has yet not ready to tolerate diversity and they don’t build a pluralistic mind. And so they apply force to stop the voice of the minority.
The ‘Uyghur’s’ Communities in China is one the latest example of it. Identically the Uyghur’s are Turkish Muslim. Near about 10 million of them are living in the Xinjiang Province of western China. In the course of the last 25 years, the agitation in Xinjiang has increased and Uyghur nationalist feeling has fortified. It is reported that China holds one million Uighur Muslims in concentration camps. This community in Xinjiang has to face controls and restriction upon on culture and religion by the authority. Many of the prisoners claimed about the physical and psychological torture in the camps.
At the age of Globalization Nationalism remain strong political forces. The Chines Government wants to remove the Uyghur and their culture. They established some schools and re-education camps for the adult. But is not it a process of cutting them from their own culture and language? They forcefully taught them Mandarin Language and bound them to change their traditional dress. If it is true that is a clear indicator of ‘ethnocide’.
The government claimed that the Uyghur are extremist and terrorist but no such symbols could be found. Many of the time they made protest for their own rights.
From the last few decades, Human Rights Groups continuously criticized China Government for its persecution over the Uyghur’s. The Xinjiang self-ruling area in China’s far west has had a long history of disagreement between the authorities and the ethnic Uighur populace. Xinjiang provinces are a very complicated area that has shared bordered with eight different counties. History told that the Xinjiang province was annexed by China in the mid of the 18th century, is mainly populated by Turkic-speaking Muslims and they regard themselves as culturally and ethnically close to Central Asian nations. The Chines Government claims the ethnic disharmony between Hans and Uyghur’s for the unrest of that region but that’s a very minor issue.
One of the basic characteristics of the state is applying its forces. And the Chines Government is practicing that. The development of nations was a relatively recent historical development. The Modern pluralist democracies must think about the welfare of the minorities by recognized their manner, tradition and secure their rights and values. All these ethnic identities are socially constructed. A modern state should beyond on it. Chines Government should come back from the ethnic torture as well.
The Writer is graduated from South Asian University, New Delhi under SAARC Silber jubilee Scholarship. Can be reached through riad.arif1952@gmail.com