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Activists, Experts Call on UN to Recognize China's Uighur 'Genocide'

Asim Kashgarian

   Nearly two dozen activist organizations and 16 genocide experts are
   urging the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to investigate China's
   campaign on Turkic Muslim minorities in China's Xinjiang Uighur
   Autonomous Region and "develop strategies" to end the alleged
   violations that, according to them, amount to acts of genocide.

   [1]Tuesday's open letterwas signed by the Uyghur Human Rights Project,
   Genocide Watch, the European Center for the Responsibility to Protect,
   and other groups and individuals.

   The letter said the Chinese government has used the guise of combating
   religious and political extremism for its "systematic policies" of
   crackdowns against Uighurs and other minorities, including the
   detention of 1 million to 1.8 million people in internment camps,
   political indoctrination, enforced disappearances, destruction of
   cultural sites, forced labor and coercive birth prevention.

   It called on the international community to use "diplomatic,
   humanitarian and other peaceful means" to respond to the alleged
   crimes.

   Commission of Inquiry

   Peter Irwin, a senior program officer at the Washington-based Uyghur
   Human Rights Project (UHRP), told VOA he believed there was sufficient
   information on the Uighur issue to warrant the creation of a Commission
   of Inquiry by the UNHRC.

References

   1. https://docs.uhrp.org/pdf/UyghurGenocideJointOpenLetter_2020-09-14.pdf

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