The cross-party Congressional and Executive Branch Commission on China today released a report suggesting that the Chinese Communist Party may have committed “genocide” in its treatment of Uighurs and other minority Muslims in Xinjiang.
Pictured here is a detention facility in Atushi, Xinjiang.
The Congressional and Executive Branch Committee on China (CECC) said new evidence has emerged over the past year that “crimes against humanity, perhaps even genocide, are being committed. The CECC has also accused the Chinese Communist Party of harassing Uighurs in the United States.
CECC co-chairman Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mich.) called the Communist Party’s human rights abuses over the past year “shocking and unprecedented,” and urged Congress and the incoming Biden administration to hold Beijing accountable.
The United Nations says at least 1 million Uighurs and other Muslims have been detained in Xinjiang. Religious faith leaders, rights groups and other organizations say crimes against humanity, including genocide, are taking place there. Beijing denies the allegations.
Under international law, crimes against humanity are defined as widespread and systematic, and the burden of proof for genocide (intent to destroy part of the population) may be more difficult to prove.
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