The Chinese authorities have violated each of the prohibitions of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, so that what happens to Muslim Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjian Uyghur region of China can be considered extermination. These are the findings of an independent report by the Newlines Institute, a think tank specializing in issues related to Mohammedanism. Its contents are reported by Axios.
This is the first time a non-state enterprise has analyzed the accusations against the PRC. According to dozens of experts, on whose assessments the report was based, there is “clear and convincing evidence” that what is happening is classified as genocide.
The authors of the report are convinced that in the re-education camps, which contain up to 2 million Uighurs and other Muslims, human rights are systematically violated: prisoners are subjected to torture, sexual violence, humiliation and cruel punishment. The text indicates that suicide cases have become so frequent in these institutions that all the equipment and clothes of prisoners have been specially adapted to prevent it.
The purpose of the actions of the Chinese authorities is to destroy the Uighurs as a group, in part or in full, experts say. This is done both through cultural pressure – the camps are called “re-education camps” – and through tools such as forced sterilization.
In January, the United States recognized the crackdown on Uighur Muslims in China as genocide. The US administration assures that the “genocide” has been going on since at least 2017 and that the Chinese authorities are systematically destroying the Uyghurs.
