The Chinese government expanded the scale of the practice of forced labor, translating the “excessive” rural workers from the Sinjan-Uygursky and Tibetan autonomous areas to state employment programs throughout the country.
This was stated in the International Labor Organization (IMT, English. International Labor Organization, ILO) – a specialized institution of the UN, an international organization engaged in labor regulation.
China uses centers of vocational training and training for forced labor in Xinjiang, Uyghur and Tibet, follows from the MOT report
The Chinese authorities included the so-called “surpluses” of rural workers in the Xinjiang-Uygursky and Tibetan autonomous areas in the work programs throughout the country, thereby expanding the forced labor of the Uyghur Turks and Tibetans in these regions, the authors of the report noted.
At the same time, China calls these measures “The liberation of rural workers.” Tens of thousands of representatives of ethnic minorities included in the so -called Employment programs “forced” to work in sectors such as the production of solar panels and batteries, seasonal agricultural work and processing of seafood.
Local authorities instructed small farmers in the area to transfer their agricultural land to large state cooperatives, thereby transferring rural workers to the production sector or services sector, explained in the MOT.
MOT called on China in detail to explain the statements contained in the report and “change its national and regional policy” in order to prevent the use of forced labor in relation to ethnic and religious minorities in the country.
The representative of the PRC Embassy in the United States Liu Penyuy told the American radio station “Voice of America” (VOA) that the ILO report is “baseless” and “erroneous”.
Some forces continue to “spread the lie” about the forced labor in Xinjiang and Tibet, the diplomat said. “The goal is only to denigrate the image of China, discredit the policy of the Chinese government against Xinjiang and Tibet, to intervene in the internal affairs of China and deceive the international community, thereby violating the stable development of Xinjiang and Tibet,” he added.