China is committing genocide on Uyghur, the country is sending Muslim people to “re-education camps” while other Countries accuse them. 

    Several countries, including the US, Canada, and the Netherlands, have accused China of committing genocide – defined by international convention as the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. There is also evidence that Uyghurs are being used as forced labor and of women being forcibly sterilized. Some farmer camp detainees have also alleged they were tortured and sexually abused. 

   The country denies all allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang, claiming its system of “re-education” camps is there to combat separatism and Islamist militancy in the region. China’s ambassador: “There is no such concentration camp in Xinjiang”.

     China has been accused of committing crimes against humanity and possibly genocide against the Uyghur population and other mostly-Muslim ethnic groups in the north-western region of Xinjian. It has detained more than one million Uyghurs against their will over the past few years in a large network of what the state calls “re-education camps”, and sentenced hundreds of thousands to prison terms. (description of the camps)

The Chinese government’s abuses of Uighur and other Turkic and Muslim-majority peoples, which have been deemed crimes against humanity, are embroiling leading apparel brands and retailers in a severe human rights crisis. State-sponsored forced labor is widespread in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (Uighurs Region) and intersects with other egregious human rights abuses, including mass arbitrary detention, mandatory political indoctrination, forced family separation, and pervasive surveillance. said BBC News.

    The Chinese Embassy in Washington said on Twitter this month that Uighur women had been “emancipated” and were “no longer baby-making machines.” Twitter later removed the comment and told a reporter that the post had violated rules against “dehumanization.”, said the New York Times.

    According to Intelligencer, C, the bad press the Biden administration got for effectively allowing the Taliban to retake power has been a welcome distraction from another grim situation in the remote northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang.