A new U.N. report on the Xinjiang region found that China’s government had committed violations that may amount to “crimes against humanity.” Some activists think it didn't go far enough.
Two weeks ago, the United Nations Human Rights Office published a report on China’s western Xinjiang region, where there has been large-scale repression of theand other predominantly Muslim communities. The report, released by Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, who left office within minutes of issuing it, found that China’s government had committed violations that may amount to “crimes against humanity.
Not publishing a factual report on the situation would have gravely undermined the authority of the High Commissioner’s office in the eyes of the general public, and within the U.N. system itself. Bachelet published it, but less than fifteen minutes before she was stepping down, which lets her successor deal with the fallout. Having said that, the content of the report, I think, is fair, balanced, and authoritative.
Did the investigators find anything that should change the way we understand what’s been going on in Xinjiang? And, if so, how? Yeah, this is a limited analogy, but, when a report that makes this type of allegation is published, the Human Rights Council should be obligated to take further steps, either to set up a fact-finding mission or take action on the fact that these very serious allegations have been established. The Office of the Secretary General can’t just sit by and pretend that nothing happened.
There is an almost fetishistic belief that the qualification of genocide on a particular situation will trigger an international response that is lacking otherwise. That is why you see the accusations of genocide multiply. It has even been used by President Biden with respect to Ukraine. The issue for the qualification of the crime of genocide is that the bar is extremely high.
If I understand correctly, this determination has been made by the U.S. government based on the pattern of forced abortions and coercive family-planning policies implemented by Chinese states, which have been confirmed by official data that show a very sharp decline in the rate of birth in Xinjiang. My issue here would be that these are policies that are not specific to Xinjiang, even though they might be, and probably are, enforced more strictly in Xinjiang since the beginning of this campaign.
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