A propaganda banner and a monitor are placed on the wall of a mosque in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, Sept. 6, 2018.
According to the BBC, a newly released British legal document alleges that there is “highly credible case evidence” that the Chinese Communist government committed genocide against the Uighur people, and that one of the pieces of evidence points to the fact that Communist Party President Xi Jinping is responsible for the inhumane crime.
The Chinese authorities are accused of committing inhumane crimes
The legal document states that there is evidence that the Chinese government has forcibly destroyed the “Uighur (mostly Muslim) ethnic minority” in the country, and that the region with the largest Uighur population is “Xinjiang” in the northwest of the mainland.
The document details all inhumane acts committed by the Chinese authorities against the Uyghurs, including forced detention, slavery, torture, rape, forced sterilization, and persecution. The document reads, “There is compelling and clear evidence that detainees were subjected to a variety of physical injuries” and “Survivors say they were forced to endure prolonged abusive stress, including electric shocks, beatings, bondage, and blindfolding.”
A February 3 BBC report, attributed to a Uighur woman, Tursunay Ziawudun, courageously testified about what she saw and heard in the “re-Education camp,” including sexual violence and rape. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly protested the story and stated that the BBC had reported false information, claiming that the story was untrue.
The document points to multiple cases of dehumanizing and genocidal crimes committed by the Chinese government against the Uighur people in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
First UK Legal Document Assesses Situation in Xinjiang
The 100-page legal document was written by a number of barristers from Essex Court Chambers, London’s most prestigious barristers’ chambers, of which 45 are Crown Counsel. This document is also recognized as the first official British legal document assessing the actions of the Chinese Communist government in Xinjiang.
The “legal opinion,” which is based on multiple pieces of evidence, found that the Chinese Communist authorities violated the crime of genocide under international law. A “Legal Opinion” is a conclusion reached by a group of legal professionals from an evaluation of evidence and legal provisions, and although it is not a sentence imposed by a judge, it can often be used as evidence in a court of law.
This “Legal Opinion” is of great significance and will be submitted to the House of Commons tomorrow (9th), and if passed by Parliament will be submitted to the Supreme Court for trial.
Genocide in violation of international law
The “legal opinion” was prompted by the World Uyghur Congress, a human rights group, and the Uighur Human Rights Project. It took six months to evaluate evidence from government, non-profit organizations, scholars, and the media, including testimony from survivors, satellite imagery, and leaked documents from the Chinese Communist government.
Meeting the requirements for a Genocide determination under International Law requires clear evidence that the primary intent of the policy action was to destroy a specific ethnic, racial or religious group.
It states, “There is substantial evidence that Uighur women have been subjected to forced temporary or permanent sterilization (through unauthorized implantation of IUDs or forced removal of the uterus) and forced abortions, which we believe clearly constitute acts of genocide under international law.”
Another evidence of genocide is the uprooting of the community’s Culture: “Evidence shows that Uighur children are forcibly removed from their Parents and that they are forcibly placed in boarding schools.” , “Children are denied access to Uighur culture, given Han names and given adoptions by Han families, all of which are evidence of efforts to destroy the Uighur population.”
Naming Xi Jinping and the general secretary of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region as masterminds
The document further states that three people are directly responsible for the Uighur genocide: the first and absolute decision-maker, national leader Xi Jinping; two top leaders, Chen Guanguo, secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region; and Zhu Hailun, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region People’s Congress.
Leaked documents from the Communist government show that Xi controls the overall direction of state policy and advises “punitive warnings” to the Uighurs, while Chen Guoduan and Zhu Hailun use mass detentions and surveillance to comply with the overall policy set forth by the party. The three were closely involved in criminal acts against the Uighur Autonomous Region with the intention of destroying the nation. The document contains harsh accusations that “there is overwhelming evidence that all three individuals have committed inhumane crimes.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has consistently denied allegations of human rights abuses against the Uighurs in Xinjiang, and the Communist Party’s ambassador to the UK in London has responded to the allegations by saying that Western anti-China forces have fabricated the Xinjiang incident as “the biggest lie of the century” in order to reignite a new Cold War battlefield, and by insisting on data showing that the population in Xinjiang is growing and that every ethnic group has equal religious and cultural freedoms.
Ma Hui, an official at the Chinese Embassy in the UK, tweeted a British MP’s release of a parliamentary film on the Xinjiang Uighur genocide, and sarcastically wrote, “A lie told 1,000 times will never become the truth.”
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