Entornointeligente.com / Members of the Uyghur community and human rights activists protesting outside the UK Parliament. Photo: David Cliff/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images In 2021 the governments of the United States, Canada and the Netherlands all independently stated China was committing genocide against Uyghur people in the region of Xinjiang. Last week, April 22, UK Parliament was the latest to accuse China of committing crimes against humanity and genocide in its treatment of ethnic and religious minorities.
Around 1 million Uyghurs and other minority groups are believed to have been illegally held and abused by authorities in internment re-education camps in Xinjiang, north-western China. Beijing denies these accusations and defends the measures as necessary to fight religious “extremism.”
The US was the first to accuse China of genocide and even approved the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, a federal law signed by Trump in June 2020, “to condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and harassment of these communities inside and outside China”. Canada´s House of Commons was the second, although Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and most members of his party abstained.
Uyghur genocide protest in China. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) According to Human Rights Non-governmental organizations and research institutions, this is a very slow response from the international community to a genocide that they insist has been going on for years. They criticize that till present there have not been any large sanctions placed on China for the reports of abuses in Xinjiang, including alleged mass surveillance, arbitrary detention in re-education camps, torture, forced labour and forced sterilization of women, nor any real political pressure exerted to get China to stop.
In July 2019, 22 countries issued a joint letter to the 41st ..
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