Beijing: Unofficial courts from lawyers and campaigners said on Thursday that Chinese President Xi Jinping took the main responsibility for what he said genocide, crimes against humanity and torture of Uighurs and Kazakh in Xinjiang.
“The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has conducted genocide, crimes against humanity and torture of Uyghur, Kazakh and ethnic minority citizens in the northwestern region of China are known as Xinjiang,” said Uighur Tribunal.
“The court is satisfied that President XI Jinping …
and other senior officials in the PRC and CCP (Chinese Communist Party) bear the main responsibility for the actions that have occurred in Xinjiang.” The Tribunal, led by British lawyer Geoffrey Nice, has no sanctions or law enforcement.
UN experts and rights groups estimate more than one million people, especially UyGhurs and other Muslim minorities, have been detained in recent years in a broad camp system in the Xinjiang Western China region.
China initially denied the camps existed, but since then said they were vocational centers and were designed to fight extremism.
At the end of 2019, China said everyone in camps had “graduated.” In June 2020, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) asked for pleasure to establish an independent court to investigate the allegations.
WIH based in Munich, which represents Uighur’s interests in Xinjiang and throughout the world, on Thursday welcomed the tribunal assessment.
In a statement on Thursday, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs dismissed WUC as a separatist organization under the control and funding of anti-Chinese forces in the United States and the West.
“This called ‘court’ does not have any legal credentials or credibility,” Ministry spokesman said, described the testimony given as wrong and the final assessment as “a political joke made by several clowns.” China loudly denied allegations of human rights violations in Xinjiang.
“Lies cannot hide the truth, cannot deceive the international community or stop the historical courses of stability, development, and prosperity of Xinjiang,” Ministry spokesman said about the Uighur Court.