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On the occasion of the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jiping in France, for three days, several hundred people gathered to ask Emmanuel Macron to bring their demands before his Chinese counterpart. Tibet is occupied by China, when the Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic group, are persecuted and oppressed in China. Tibetans and Uyghurs share the same struggle against Chinese politics.
A monk and women sing in the middle of several hundred protesters, Place du Trocadero, in Paris. On the ground men are lying, covered by Tibetan flags. They symbolize the 153 monks who sacrificed themselves in protest against Chinese rule.
A sky blue flag in hand, Omer Ali, the president of the association of Uyghurs of France, recalls that his fight against Chinese oppression is the same as that of Tibetans. " The Tibetan brothers have lived the same story and we have been doing it since 1949, 70 years ago. If it continues like this, the two ethnic groups will be removed from the history of humanity, "he warns.
Tenam is a member of the International Students for a Free Tibet Association. He fears the influence of China on the European Union and France - the country where he found refuge. " There is this Chinese model that is beginning to weigh on the democratic European model. This is not just the question of the situation of Tibet, it is also the question of the survival of a democracy in Europe. "
After various speeches, the procession went to the wall of Peace. Another rally is scheduled for Monday, same time, same place.
The economy must not overshadow human rights
Senator UDI Val-d'Oise, Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, was present. She hopes that Emmanuel Macron confronts his Chinese counterpart on Tibetan and Uighur issues. "When I returned from Brussels a fortnight ago, I asked the government a question for President Macron to address the problem of Tibetans' freedom with the Chinese president. Tibetans simply ask for freedom where they live, recognize that it is a people, have a civilization, a religion and let them live as they want to live. France, a country of human rights, can not fail to address this issue of minorities who are today threatened everywhere by the Chinese, "she rebels. " I think that the Chinese, who consider themselves a bit like the kings of the world, we need them economically, probably, but the economy must not impose everything. It is not because we make economic agreements that we should not talk about human rights. "
Human Rights Watch, fearing that human rights will be ignored during the visit, urged Emmanuel Macron to confront Xi Jinping with the scale of human rights violations in China, unprecedented in recent years according to the NGO .