The Uyghur Human Rights Project commends the legal analysis concluding that the government of China is committing genocide against the Uyghur people, published today by the Newlines Institute, “The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention.”
“The Chinese government is on a fast track to completely crush our people,” said UHRP Executive Director Omer Kanat. “Anyone who survives the atrocities will be scarred forever. And with fewer and fewer babies born to Uyghur parents, our homeland will be empty of any real Uyghur life within a generation.”
UHRP welcomes the report’s groundbreaking finding that “intent to destroy,” a key criterion of the Genocide Convention under Article II, does not require an intent to eliminate the group, nor it does it require explicit statements. The report finds that intent “can be inferred from a collection of objective facts that are attributable to the State, including official statements, a general plan, State policy and law, a pattern of conduct, and repeated destructive acts, which have a logical sequence and result — destruction of the group as such in whole or in substantial part.”
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