The official letters to U.S. travel agencies Abercrombie & Kent, Geographic Expeditions, and Wild Frontiers raise concerns about advertised tours in the region and asks that the agencies cancel any planned tours to the XUAR or respond to questions about company policies and the tours advertised on their website.
“Tourism whitewashes the atrocities committed against Uyghurs and other minorities and puts a happy face on genocide” in Xinjiang, the lettrr reads, urging companies to “not be complicit in this effort, marketing PRC-controlled tours to U.S. citizens and other foreigners.”
"Instead, the U.S. and its allies should be demanding unfettered access for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, and long-banned experts on the region to conduct investigations of past and ongoing atrocities and other gross violations of human rights, such as forced labor.”
I was on board till “US Customs and Border Protection officials”. Those shouldn’t be in any country except the US for their work.
Lmao. “Don’t go to xinjiang because then you will see that what we’re telling you is propaganda. Instead, convince them to send US CBP, who keeps children in cages separate from their parents and then loses the children, because they’re totally an above board organization and not one whose literal job duties include harassing tourists and travelers from poor countries and beating, caging, and otherwise mistreating refugees. “
The US can’t accuse anyone else of committing a genocide when they actively support and finance one themselves. You need to have some respect for anyone to take you seriously, and US is a hypocrite on the world stage.
That is not to say that what is happening to Uyghurs doesn’t constitute human right abuses or even genocide. China should let UN representatives in if they have nothing to hide.
The part about “U.S. Customs and Border Protection official” is just there to highlight US is high on their own self perceived importance.
