This article examines why UN human rights bodies—established to address cases like Liu Xiaobo’s persecution—have remained silent on China’s ongoing crimes while focusing disproportionately on the comfort women issue. Drawing on Masayuki Takayama’s analysis, it exposes the political distortion of international human rights mechanisms.

2017-08-09.
The UN Human Rights Committee exists for this purpose, and the Human Rights Committee under the ICCPR is precisely the body meant to handle cases like that of Liu Xiaobo.
I have repeatedly stated that Masayuki Takayama is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
He writes the opening column for the monthly magazine Sound Argument, and in the latest issue released recently, he has once again written a superb essay that proves my assessment entirely correct.
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The act of exterminating an entire ethnic group is called ethnic cleansing.
The term “cleansing” carries the same meaning as cosmetic cleansing, that is, to wipe something away completely.
The model for how to do this is written by the Jews in the Old Testament.
They fight and defeat the enemy army and kill even those who surrender.
They then attack settlements, loot sheep and livestock, and kill all males, even one-year-old children.
This is to eradicate the seed of the enemy, and married women are also killed because they may be carrying seed in their wombs.
Pregnant women, of course, have their bellies cut open and the fetuses killed.
The Book of Numbers states that “virgins who have not known a man are gifts from God to you soldiers.”
This means to violate them and pollute the blood of the enemy people.
Christians carried out these biblical teachings with enthusiasm.
Americans, however, removed the part about fighting and defeating enemy warriors.
In the Sand Creek Massacre, where the Cheyenne tribe was annihilated, Americans attacked while the warriors were away hunting, killed even virgins, and cut off their genitalia.
Rather than destroying the seed, the American method of ethnic elimination destroyed the field itself.
This is why Russians defeated by the Mongols came to resemble Lenin in appearance, while in the United States people of mixed Native American blood are rare, with Angelina Jolie being a notable exception.
Incidentally, Minsk, surrounded by vast wetlands, could not be entered by Mongol cavalry and thus escaped mass rape.
Delighted by this, the nation took the name “White Russia,” meaning purity.
China also excels at ethnic elimination.
During the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, it carried out large-scale ethnic purges against Mongols who had once ruled China as slave masters.
Mongol leaders were arrested and most were purged.
Men were fitted with iron bands around their heads, tightened until their skulls were crushed.
Women had their genitalia mutilated.
“Bare groins were rubbed with rough rope, and fetuses were pulled from pregnant women’s wombs with bare hands” (Yang Haiying).
Tibet suffered the same fate.
Under the pretext of population control, young Tibetan women were forcibly sterilized.
Britain’s Channel 4 reported that “fallopian tubes were pulled out through the vagina and removed without anesthesia,” and that “pregnant women were forced to undergo abortions, with extracted fetuses piled up.”
The Manchus were forcibly relocated from their homeland of Manchuria to Uyghur regions, and the use of the Manchu language and script was banned.
Fewer than ten people can now read the Manchu characters inscribed above Tiananmen.
Even Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese disliked by Beijing, was subjected to elimination.
He was denied cancer treatment and allowed to die.
Liu Shaoqi died in the same manner.
To address these ongoing Chinese atrocities, the United Nations has bodies tasked with investigation, denunciation, and compelling Beijing to correct its conduct.
The UN Human Rights Committee is one, and the ICCPR committee beneath it exists precisely for cases like Liu Xiaobo’s.
The UN Committee Against Torture also maintains special rapporteurs who investigate China’s abuse of Tibetans, visit the field, report to the UN, and issue recommendations to Beijing.
There is also the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
The forced relocation of Manchus and Uyghurs should have been textbook cases for this committee.
The Human Rights Council handles cases involving systematic violations of human rights, including freedom of expression.
If a state conceals Liu Xiaobo’s death or forces sterilization on Tibetan women, this council should respond immediately.
Yet according to Mio Sugita, these committees are currently focused not on China’s present crimes but on insisting that “comfort women must not be buried by the statute of limitations.”
China’s deputy ambassador Wang Min even appeared before the committees and declared that comfort women were “crimes against humanity.”
Is this really a moment for Chinese officials to lecture the world on humanity.
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