Beijing’s incendiary response to “interference in its internal affairs” as the People’s Tribunal prepares to open.
The gloves are off with only days to go before an investigation is launched in the UK into alleged genocide and crimes against humanity in North West China.
Beijing has fired a volley of assaults on the integrity and motives of those behind the “absurd” independent Uyghur Tribunal which opens on Friday, accusing it of “maliciously spreading lies and disinformation.” The Tribunal has already come under attack recently. It was included in a raft of PRC sanctions against UK entities that have condemned CCP actions against the Turkic peoples of Xinjiang, and dared to use the “G” word in particular. Beijing has threatened further actions if necessary,” in the light of the “cheap tricks,” to “smear China and interfere with its internal affairs.”
Atrocities being meted out to Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities are increasingly being denounced as genocide around the world. A handful of states have stepped forward, but the World Uyghur Congress which requested the independent tribunal, is hoping, depending on the judgement, for an accelerated international response to the Uyghur crisis.
The Uyghur Tribunal was set up in September last year to investigate a swathe of allegations of brutality amidst the simultaneous erosion of Uyghur culture and religion. The detention of a significant proportion of the Uyghur population, torture and inhuman treatment of detainees, rape and other sexual violence, the forced separation of children from their parents, forced sterilization, forced labor, forced organ harvesting, enforced disappearances, killings in detention, forced marriages and the imposition of Han Chinese men into Uyghur households, are just some of the crimes of which the PRC is accused. read more