Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to start his visit to Beijing tomorrow. Supporters of China’s democracy movement criticize the travel plans – and point to numerous human rights violations.
In an open letter, 186 dissidents and other critical intellectuals from China called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) to cancel his trip to Beijing planned for Thursday. One appeals to the conscience of people in Germany and around the world to raise their voice: “Mr. Scholz, please do not travel to China,” said the letter published by the digital media company Table.Media.
The signatories include former student leaders of the democracy movement, which was brutally suppressed in 1989, such as Wang Dan and Wu’er Kaixi, or the Berlin-based winner of the 2012 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Liao Yiwu.
Today’s China is “not just a centralized state,” but is slowly slipping into a “dictatorship based on the National Socialist model,” it said. The signatories to the letter accused the Chinese leadership of numerous human rights violations, including in the autonomous regions of Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia, and also complained of “genocide”.
According to estimates by human rights groups, hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other members of minorities have been sent to re-education camps in Xinjiang in recent years. There are allegations of torture, ill-treatment and indoctrination. The World Congress of Uyghurs has also asked Scholz to cancel his trip to China.
Source: Stern
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