China News Agency, Beijing, May 29th, title: Get rid of the shadow of violence and terror, Xinjiang's human rights protection achievements are hard-won

　　China News Agency reporter Yang Chengchen

　　In September 2016, the then deputy director of the Pishan County Public Security Bureau of Xinjiang, Ai Reti Mamuti, fell into the front line of the fight against terrorism, and his life was fixed at the age of 47.

Today, his story is still circulating in Hotan where he worked and even in southern Xinjiang, and the exhibition hall named after him has received thousands of visitors.

　　The southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang used to be at the forefront of counter-terrorism.

According to the white paper "Counter-terrorism, De-radicalization and Human Rights Protection in Xinjiang" released in 2019, in the past 26 years, hundreds of police officers like Erheti have been killed in counter-terrorism operations.

However, some malicious hype about Xinjiang-related issues in the Western media recently poured dirty water on them.

　　For a long period of time, the biggest threat to the right to subsistence and development of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang are religious extremist forces, ethnic separatist forces, and violent terrorist forces, commonly known as the "three evil forces".

They poisoned the living beings, the methods were extremely cruel, and the piles of cases were bloody and heinous.

In the eyes of the outside world, Xinjiang was once synonymous with insecurity.

　　For developing countries, the rights to subsistence and development are the primary human rights.

In order to safeguard the rights of survival and development of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, and carry out anti-violence and anti-terrorism efforts, Xinjiang has reached the point where it has to do something.

In the process, the police and other front-line personnel made significant contributions, but also made huge sacrifices.

　　From the perspective of development practice, China has always adopted a "less talk and more action" attitude towards human rights issues in Xinjiang.

At present, there have been no cases of violence and terrorism in Xinjiang for more than five consecutive years, and the rights to life, health and development of people of all ethnic groups have been effectively guaranteed.

Freed from the shadow of violence and terror, Xinjiang's achievements in human rights protection are hard-won.

In 2021, Xinjiang will achieve an increase of 8% and 10.8% in the per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents; the GDP growth rate in the first quarter of 2022, which was just announced, will lead the country at 7%.

　　Xinjiang has not shied away from responding to the concerns of all parties on human rights issues.

At several human rights-related seminars held in China recently, Chinese and foreign scholars described from the perspective of facts, data and mutual learning between the East and the West that all ethnic groups in Xinjiang are currently enjoying an unprecedented and real happy life.

Serious observers take Xinjiang's changes seriously, witness its recovery from trauma, and sincerely hope that its inhabitants will lead a life full of hope.

　　Sonia Bresley, a French scholar who has visited Xinjiang several times and completed several monographs on Xinjiang, once pointed out that it is precisely because of the Chinese government's ethnic policy and Xinjiang governance strategy that Xinjiang, a region with a vast territory and many ethnic groups, has achieved Huge development, the living conditions of the local people continue to improve, and their sense of happiness continues to increase.

　　When Xinjiang got rid of the shadow of violence and terror and social life turned on the right track, the United States and the West suddenly began to "concern" about "human rights in Xinjiang."

Some politicians concoct and spread Xinjiang-related lies, smear China's Xinjiang policy, distort the human rights situation in Xinjiang, and abuse unilateral sanctions.

This wrong act of confounding right and wrong is politicizing and instrumentalizing the human rights issue, and it is a blasphemy and violation of the global human rights cause.

　　There is no "ideal state" on the issue of human rights, and there is no need for a "teacher" to dictate to other countries. The global human rights governance system should be jointly built by all countries.

China has spoken at the UN Human Rights Council on behalf of countries with similar views on many occasions, telling real human rights stories in China and Xinjiang, exposing the truth of a few Western countries' "using Xinjiang to control China", defending international fairness and justice, and promoting the healthy development of the global human rights governance system .

　　Nearly six years later, Aigeti's eldest daughter is now following his father in a police uniform.

The tranquility of Xinjiang society is achieved by the day and night protection of generations. Those who are suffering from the "three evil forces" most want to see Xinjiang's hard-won stable development, and they should not be splashed with dirty water, slandered by lies.

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