International human rights panel denounces China committing genocide against Uyghurs

China violated all provisions of the United Nations Genocide Convention against the Uyghur minority, according to an independent report prepared by more than 50 global experts in human rights, war crimes and international law.

The document, published this Tuesday by the expert group of the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, based in Washington, states that the Chinese regime would be responsible for an “ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs”.

“This report concludes that the People’s Republic of China bears state responsibility for committing genocide against Uyghurs in violation of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) on the basis for a careful examination of the available evidence and the application of international law to the evidence of facts on the ground “, it reads in the summary at the start of the post.

It also explains how and when the persecution began: “In 2014, the Chinese head of state, President Xi Jinping, launched the“ People’s War on Terrorism ”in Xinjiang in regions where Uyghurs represent nearly 90% of the population. Senior Chinese officials executed orders to “arrest all those who should be detained,” “clean them up completely,” “destroy them from root to branch” and “break their lineage, roots, connections and origins.” Officials have described Uyghurs in dehumanizing terms and have repeatedly explained the massive internment of Uyghurs to eradicate tumors. ”, details.

It is the first time that a non-governmental organization has conducted an independent legal analysis of allegations of possible genocide in the northwestern region of Xinjiang in China, where there is a minority of Muslim faith.

It is believed that up to 2 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities transferred to a vast network of detention centers across the region, according to the United States Department of State, where Former detainees claim to have been subjected to indoctrination, sexual abuse and even sterilization, assures the medium.

China has denied repeated allegations of human rights violations and says the centers are needed to prevent religious extremism and terrorism.

CNN recalled that, during a press conference on March 7, the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang yi, I affirm that Xinjiang genocide claims “couldn’t be more absurd”.

However, the outgoing administration of the former US president Donald trump said in January that China was committing genocidio in Xinjiang. A month later, the parliaments of the Netherlands and Canada have adopted motions in this regard.

Azeem Ibrahim, director of special initiatives at Newlines and co-author of the new report, ensured the existence of a “overwhelming evidence which supports these allegations of genocide.

“It is a great world power, whose leaders are the architects of a genocide”he told CNN.

The network showed a photo allegedly taken on June 4, 2019, of a facility considered to be a re-education camp where mainly ethnic Muslim minorities are detained, north of Akto, in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.

The United Nations Convention on Genocide was approved by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948 and it has a clear definition of what constitutes “genocide”. China is a signatory of the pact, as well as 151 other countries.

Article II of the convention establishes that genocide is an attempt to commit acts “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”.

If the violation of a single act of this Convention would constitute proof of genocide, the Newlines report asserts that Chinese regime has met all criteria with its actions in Xinjiang.

Another report published on February 8 by Essex Court Chambers in London, which was commissioned by the Uyghur World Congress and the Uyghur Human Rights Project, came to a similar conclusion: there is a “credible case” against China for genocideNoted CNN.

The Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy was founded in 2019 as a non-partisan think tank by Fairfax University of America, with the aim of: “To improve U.S. foreign policy based on a deep understanding of the geopolitics of different parts of the world and their value systems.”. It was previously known as the Center for Global Politics.

Here is the report from the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy.

(With information from EFE)

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