‘The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has committed genocide and inhumane crimes against Uyghurs. In addition, Kazakh and other minorities in China’s northwestern Xinjiang have been persecuted, ” the British – based Uyghur tribunal said on Thursday.
“The tribunal is pleased that President Xi Jinping and other senior officials in the PRC and the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) are taking primary responsibility for what happened in Xinjiang.”
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), which represents the interests of Uyghur Muslims around Xinjiang, called on Nice in 2020 to set up an independent tribunal to investigate the violence in Xinjiang.
Some foreign lawmakers and parliaments, in addition to US President Trump and current US President Biden, have declared the US Secretary of State in their administration a genocide against the Uyghur people.
But China has denied the allegations.
In a statement on Thursday, the State Department dismissed the WUC as a separatist organization under the control and funding of anti – China forces in the U.S. and Western countries.
‘This so-called court has no legal qualifications and no credibility accordingly,’ said a ministry spokesman.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and rights groups estimate that more than a million people, especially members of the Uyghur and other Muslim minorities, have been detained in large-scale camps in Xinjiang in recent years.
China initially said there were no camps to house them. But China later argued that they were occupation centers and designed to fight terrorism. China also announced that by the end of 2019, everyone in the camps would have graduated.
The Chinese embassy in London claims that the tribunal is a tool of China’s enemies to spread lies.
An embassy spokesman said this was nothing more than a political tool used by anti-Chinese and separatists to deceive and mislead the public.
The spokesman said that no one with a conscience and reason would be deceived or deceived.
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Source: Agencies | Compiled by Sruthy C.R
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