Geneva, April 2nd, 1997 _ Erkin Alptekin, member of the radical delegation to the work session of the Human Rights Commission in Geneva, delivered a speech reminding the commission that the treatment of minorities on behalf of a state cannot be disregarded as a strictly internal affair. The very same work of the Commission demonstrates, with the adoption of treaties and declarations on the subject of minority rights, the involvement of the international community on this matter. The treatment of the Uigura population in Eastern Turkistan, and the repression and murder of thousands of its members, the systematic destruction of its cultural and religious identity, and the massive relocation of Chinese citizens into the territory, illustrates a typical situation, and one that is analogous to that of Tibet and other peoples, in which the international community has the right to intervene.

(Published by TRANSNATIONAL #12, May 27th, 1997

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