BEIJING: A United Nations report said claims of torture and forced labour in China's Xinjiang are credible and warned crimes against humanity may have taken place, allegations condemned
said claims of torture and forced labour in China's Xinjiang are credible and warned crimes against humanity may have taken place, allegations condemned on Thursday by Beijing as a"political tool" aimed at containing the country.
"The so-called critical report you mentioned is planned and manufactured firsthand by the US and some Western forces, it is wholly illegal and invalid," foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a regular briefing on Thursday. Bachelet was determined to release it before her four-year term as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expired at the end of August - and did so with 13 minutes to spare at 11.47pm in Geneva.
"Serious human rights violations have been committed in XUAR in the context of the government's application of counter-terrorism and counter-'extremism' strategies," the UN report said. The number in the VETCs, at least between the years 2017 and 2019,"was very significant, comprising a substantial proportion of the Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim minority populations".
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