The Chinese tentacles are spreading against the Uighurs. According to Uighur scholar Abduweli Ayub, Chinese national security forces have been active in several countries including Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt and even Dubai with the main objective of retaliating against the Uighurs living there. The Norway-based scholar has claimed that the Chinese have been targeting Uighurs even outside China.

According to news agency ANI, “Ayub’s friend Yusufjan Amet, an Uighur, who claims he was forced to spy on members of his ethic group living in exile in Turkey for China’s government was assassinated by a gunman in Istanbul.” Amet told Ayub, whom he knew for years, how he was forced to serve as a spy for the Chinese government, the news agency said.

Amet was even being intimidated by members of the Chinese Communist Party after his interview was aired on Al Jazeera.

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Human Rights Watch has already pointed out how millions of Uighur Muslims have faced discrimination and surveillance in China. The Uighur Muslims are even made to give DNA and biometric samples. Reportedly about 1 million Uighur Muslims are held in detention camps in China. While earlier China denied that any such detention camp existed, later is said that they were merely schools which imparted vocational education. However, evidence clearly reveals that Uighur Muslims are detained in these camps, they are given lessons in Mandarin and are also asked to give up their region.

At a time when Pakistan and Turkey have strongly condemned French President Emmanuel Macron for his defence of a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed and describing Islam as ‘a religion in crisis,” it is surprising that they have remained silent over the Uighur Muslim issue.

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"This is a time when President Macron could have put a healing touch and denied space to extremists rather than creating further polarization and marginalization that inevitably leads to radicalization," Imran Khan, Pakistan Prime Minister wrote on Twitter.

However, Khan a strong ally of an aggressive China, which is in the spotlight now for several reasons including its treatment to the Uighur Muslims, has not spoken questioning the dragon.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan too has come out strongly against France and Europe and raised concerns over for what he described as “rising Islamophobia.”

We are yet to hear these leaders speak up for the rights of Uighur Muslims..