{"id":578,"date":"2021-04-28T15:14:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T12:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/?p=578"},"modified":"2021-04-28T16:41:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:41:43","slug":"china-crimes-against-humanity-in-xinjiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/china-crimes-against-humanity-in-xinjiang\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA: CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN XINJIANG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Human Rights Watch<\/a>. 19 April 2021<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below is an article published by Human Rights Watch<\/a>. Photo:Thomas Peter\/Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chinese government is committing crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the northwest region of Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Chinese leadership is responsible for widespread and systematic policies of mass detention, torture, and cultural persecution, among other offenses. Coordinated international action is needed to sanction those responsible, advance accountability, and press the Chinese government to reverse course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The 53-page report, \u201c\u2018Break Their Lineage, Break Their Roots\u2019: China\u2019s Crimes against Humanity Targeting Uyghurs and Other Turkic Muslims,\u201d authored with assistance from Stanford Law School\u2019s Human Rights & Conflict Resolution Clinic, draws on newly available information from Chinese government documents, human rights groups, the media, and scholars to assess Chinese government actions in Xinjiang within the international legal framework. The report identified a range of abuses against Turkic Muslims that amount to offenses committed as part of a widespread and systematic attack directed against a population: mass arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances, mass surveillance, cultural and religious erasure, separation of families, forced returns to China, forced labor, and sexual violence and violations of reproductive rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChinese authorities have systematically persecuted Turkic Muslims \u2013 their lives, their religion, their culture,\u201d said Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cBeijing has said it\u2019s providing \u2018vocational training\u2019 and \u2018deradicalization,\u2019 but that rhetoric can\u2019t obscure a grim reality of crimes against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crimes against humanity are considered among the gravest human rights abuses under international law. The Chinese government\u2019s oppression of Turkic Muslims is not a new phenomenon, but in recent years it has reached unprecedented levels. In addition to mass detention and pervasive restrictions on practicing Islam, there is increasing evidence of forced labor, broad surveillance, and unlawful separation of children from their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s increasingly clear that Chinese government policies and practices against the Turkic Muslim population in Xinjiang meet the standard for crimes against humanity under international criminal law,\u201d said Beth Van Schaack, faculty affiliate, Stanford Center for Human Rights & International Justice. \u201cThe government\u2019s failure to stop these crimes, let alone punish those responsible, shows the need for strong and coordinated international action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human Rights Watch and the Stanford Human Rights Clinic urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to adopt a resolution to create a commission of inquiry with authority to investigate allegations of crimes against humanity, identify officials responsible for abuses, and provide a road map for holding them accountable. The UN high commissioner for human rights should also monitor and report on the human rights situation in Xinjiang and keep the Human Rights Council regularly informed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concerned governments should impose coordinated visa bans, travel bans, and targeted individual sanctions on authorities responsible for criminal acts. They should also pursue domestic criminal cases under the concept of \u201cuniversal jurisdiction,\u201d which allows prosecution of grave crimes committed abroad. And they should adopt trade restrictions and other measures to end the use of forced labor in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is increasingly clear that a coordinated global response is needed to end China\u2019s crimes against humanity against Turkic Muslims,\u201d Richardson said. \u201cThat China is a powerful state makes it all the more important for holding it accountable for its unrelenting abuses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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