GENEVA, Sept 3 — The UN report detailing serious rights abuses by China in its Xinjiang region found possible crimes against humanity but not genocide — an atrocity crime tough...
GENEVA, Sept 3 — The UN report detailing serious rights abuses by China in its Xinjiang region found possible crimes against humanity but not genocide — an atrocity crime tough to prove in international law.
However, “to allege genocide, the UN would need to prove intent. And that’s really difficult... when access to Xinjiang is restricted”.Campaigners have long accused China of a litany of abuses in the far-western region, including detaining more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslims, and forcibly sterilising women.
The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity”, it said. But for US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the report “deepens and reaffirms our grave concern regarding the ongoing genocide”. Outnumbered more than 10 to one in 1953, the Han Chinese are now at near parity with the Uyghurs, largely due to westward migration, including as a result of government incentives.
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