The Chinese government's alleged actions in Xinjiang have violated every single provision in the United Nations' Genocide Convention, according to an independent report by more than 50 global experts in human rights, war crimes and international law.
The Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, a Washington-based think tank, has published a report outlining the Chinese government’s violations of the 1948 Genocide Convention with regard to the Uyghur people of Xinjiang.
The Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping has pursued in general policies which have had little regard for human rights. In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) these human rights violations have been particularly grievous.
An excerpt from the executive summary of the Newlines Institute’s report THE UYGHUR GENOCIDE: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention...
In 2014, China’s Head of State, President Xi Jinping, launched the "People’s War on Terror" in XUAR, making the areas where Uyghurs constitute nearly 90 percent of the population the front line. High-level officials followed up with orders to "round up everyone who should be rounded up," "wipe them out completely ... destroy them root and branch," and "break their lineage, break their roots, break their connections, and break their origins." Officials described Uyghurs with dehumanizing terms and repeatedly likened the mass internment of Uyghurs to "eradicating tumors."
It’s blood-curdling language which is reminiscent of the Rwanda genocide or even Nazi Germany.Â
The report is detailed and makes a strong legal case for treating the suppression of the Uyghur people as genocide under international law. The report can be read in its entirety here.
NOTE: The word Uyghur can be transliterated in a number of ways. For the sake of consistency in this post I have stuck with the spelling used by the Newlines Institute. However it has often been transliterated the following ways: Uighur, Uigur, and Uygur.
