“Genocide continues, save the Uyghurs.“; “Dethrone Xi Jinping, general strike.On both sides of the French capital, slogans against the Chinese regime are being heard this Saturday, December 3. Hundreds of Chinese, French and supporters of Chinese descent gathered to protest Xi Jinping’s policies. National Square (12:00e district), a demonstration was organized to condemn the treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang, while Place du Trocadéro (16e district), a rally is held to challenge the policy “Zero Covid” applied in China for three years.
A hundred men, women and children marched on the 12th, holding the Uyghur flags, the crescent moon and white star on a light blue background.e Paris region. Some hold signsFree Uighursprepared for the occasion, others wear masks in the colors of the flag. Many refuse to answer questions.”out of fear of detection by the regime“.
“Freedom to the Uyghur people”.
Gani agrees to talk to us because he hasn’t heard from his brother in nearly four years. “ He’s locked up in a camp or prison, we don’t really know. he laments. We told my parents he needed to be “educated”“. In 2016, Ghani left his hometown of Ghulja in Xinjiang for France. He says to himself.powerlessunder repression in his home state. “I have a Uighur friend who went back to China and never came back“Adds this 35-year-old man who has”fear of being locked upif he did the same.
32-year-old Merdan attracts the photographers’ lens. He reproduced the Uyghur flag on his forehead.”for independence and against Chinese colonialism– he justifies. But he also covered his face in fake blood as a sign of “respect for those who lost their lives fire From Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang in northwest China. On November 25, a fire broke out in the building, as a result of which ten people were killed and nine were injured. Netizens blamed health restrictions for hampering the work of aid workers, who took three hours to put out the fire.
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Political speeches
This tragedy prompted the president of the European Uyghur Institute, Dilnur Reyhan, to organize this event.five days ago“. “Up with Chinese totalitarianism, down with Chinese colonialism“, he chants, sitting on a bench, microphone in hand. “What is happening against the Uyghurs is genocideHe shouts before speaking to the present political figures. Olivier Faure, General Secretary of the Socialist Party, Yannick Jadot, EELV MEP and former presidential candidate, Socialist Senator David Assoulin and Raphael Glucksman, a loyal MEP. Uighurs.
Each condemns one after the other.idleness“and”hypocrisy“The complicity of the French government, but also of the companies that work.”illegally the Uyghurs“. Asked Le FigaroYannick Jadot remembers his supportsheer courageDemonstrators, who have been taking to the streets of China’s major cities for more than a week to protest “zero covid“.
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“Resignation of Xi Jinping”.
In support of this historic Chinese protest movement, unprecedented since the Tiananmen pro-democracy mobilizations of 1989, a second demonstration is being held on the other side of the capital at the foot of the war memorial, Place du Trocadéro. On wallpapers:Zero to Covid“, “Xi publishes“, “Free China“… The message is clear.
Young Chinese expats in France are present holding sheets of white paper, a symbol used by protesters in China to denounce censorship. For many, it has been more than three years since they have seen their family. This is the case of 28-year-old Jessica, who came to Paris to study. He is demonstrating today because of health restrictions.”ticket prices have skyrocketed“. Accompanied by her friend Zoe, she sings in a choir.Do you hear people singing?“song”from the revolutionary film Les Miserables» [réalisé par Tom Hooper, ndlr]. “Since we don’t have an official song yet, we use this one everywhere in Chinasays Zoe.
The assembly bursts into laughter at the sight of Xi Jinping
Between two songs andXi Jinping resigns“The demonstrators are watching a video projected on a canvas. You can see a collection of videos of demonstrations in Shanghai, Canton, Beijing… When President Xi Jinping appears, the congregation erupts in laughter. “That’s because he was talking about the awakened Chinese people. It’s very ironic because his sentence has now backfiredZoe explains.
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This 31-year-old young woman made stickers for that occasion. On it he wrote:All you need is love and alien powers“, it is “All you need is love and alien powers“. A trick that mixes a Beatles song with the rhetoric of a communist regime.As soon as we oppose the government in China, Xi Jinping accuses foreign powers of perverting usexclaims Zoe. But if these people are there, that’s what we need.»
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Source: Le Figaro
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