Right on the heels of a major advocacy victory for the Uyghur crisis — the signing of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act into law — new evidence suggests that the Uyghurs of China are being subjected to not only crimes against humanity, but also genocide.
The Chinese government is implementing draconian measures to severely slash birth rates among the Uyghurs as a means of curbing its Muslim population. This sweeping campaign of limiting births through subjugation, severe rights deprivation and terror joins an ever-increasing list of other heinous abuses designed to bring about this ethnoreligious minority group’s assimilation into the “Chinese Nation-Race”, and perhaps even…its erasure.
Two complementary reports, released on Monday, June 29, by the Associated Press and China scholar Adrian Zenz, document the Chinese government’s systematic campaign to slash birth rates among Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Turkic Muslims in East Turkistan (also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region or XUAR), including via the widespread application of forced pregnancy tests, birth control, sterilization and abortion on hundreds of thousands of Uyghur women. Birth rates in Xinjiang have plummeted by over 60% amid this climate of terror, even as those of Han Chinese have begun to rise. read more