Treatment Of Uyghurs May Amount To Crimes Against Humanity Says Un Human Rights Office
The report calls for an urgent international response to allegations of torture and other rights abuses in Beijing’s campaign to stamp out terrorism. UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet brushed aside repeated Chinese calls for her office to withhold the report, which follows her own trip to Xinjiang in May and which Beijing says is part of a Western campaign to smear China’s reputation. The report has sparked a tug-of-war for diplomatic influence with the West over the rights of the region’s indigenous Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups....