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China’s treatment of Uygurs may be genocide, warns report by US Holocaust Museum
- ‘The impunity with which the Chinese government has been able to commit these crimes cannot persist,’ the 56-page report says
- The museum, located in Washington, is considered an influential voice on issues related to genocide
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Jacob Fromerin Washington
One of the leading global authorities on the Holocaust and other mass atrocities warned on Tuesday that Beijing’s policies targeting the Uygur Muslim population in far-west Xinjiang may have risen to the level of genocide, and that the world must act quickly to stop it.
“The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is gravely concerned that the Chinese government may be committing genocide against the Uygurs,” said a new report issued by the museum, which is located in Washington.
“The impunity with which the Chinese government has been able to commit these crimes thus far cannot persist,” it said. “The future of a people may depend on swift, coordinated action by global actors.”
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The 56-page report is the latest sign that Beijing’s actions in Xinjiang – which the museum says include mass incarceration and surveillance, forced sterilisation and destruction of religious property – have raised alarms not just in Congress and the White House, but in a growing segment of the American public too.
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It was published by the museum’s Simon-Skjodt Centre for the Prevention of Genocide, which describes its mission as seeking “to do for victims of genocide today what was not done for the Jews of Europe”.
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