BEIJING (Reuters) – An advocacy group the rights of minorities in exile criticized Chinese state television Saturday a report suggesting that the Uighurs who had been forcibly returned to China after leaving had returned to an “earthly paradise”.
The report comes at a when the eastern giant tries to prevent members of the Uighur ethnic group to leave the country. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of the largest Muslim ethnic minority have left China in recent years, clandestinely crossing the border into Southeast Asia before heading to Turkey.
The program broadcast on Chinese television on Friday showed two Uighur farmers in the western region of Xinjiang returning to a peaceful life in China. One, dedicated to the cultivation of fruit, appeared tending his garden and saying that he had only left the country because he was “confused” and “head messed up.”
“Religious extremism affected me,” said the farmer. “The government approves much our legal religious activities.”
The police he discovered that he had been coerced into fleeing the country, according to the report.
Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress exile group, called the program propaganda tool.
” (The government is) using television to incite the Chinese people to alienate Uighurs because their own policies have resulted in a reality in which people flee the country, “he said by email.
Unable to contact immediately by telephone with the government of Xinjiang for comment .
The groups defending human rights ensure that these migrants escape Ethnic violence in Xinjiang and Chinese control over their religion and culture. Hundreds of people have died in various riots in Xinjiang in the past three years, something that the Beijing government blames the Islamist insurgency.
The Chinese government says many of those fleeing are extremists who leave the country to join with other militants in Iraq and Syria. Also denies any repression in Xinjiang.
China has alleged that some of the 109 Uighurs deported from Thailand threatening to national security.
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