Open inquiry

re: "Bombshell UN Xinjiang report lists litany of rights abuses" (BP, September 1, 2022)

Dear editor,

If China sincerely believes as reported that UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet's report on "the so-called Xinjiang issue is a completely fabricated lie out of political motivations", the solution is simple and obvious: invite a variety of independent observers in to freely travel around, freely talk to people and freely discover what is the case to be more accurately reported. Such open and transparent discussion is always, without exception, the best, perhaps the sole, way for truth to be discovered and false claims exposed as the lies they are.

Censorship, in contrast, including the criminalization of peaceful speech that contradicts official stories, is resorted to solely to enforce ignorance lest ugly facts come to light, which censorship of dissenting opinion must, therefore, itself constitute prima facie good reason for suspecting that the glowing myth so viciously protected by draconian prison sentences and like violations of human rights, all according to unjust law, is largely fake. 

 Felix Qui

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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.

The text as edited was published in PostBag on September 4, 2022, under the title "Open inquiry" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2383803/power-to-him