LONDON: Leading scholars and lawyers joined politicians and human rights groups in the UK on Wednesday for the first large-scale conference to discuss the alleged Chinese government genocide against ethnic ethnic groups in the North Xinjiang region.
The three-day conference at Newcastle University brings together dozens of speakers, including senior British judges and parliamentarians, and is the first to collect so many experts on Xinjiang and genocide.
This is the latest step aimed at asking China’s accountability for alleged violations of rights to Uyghur and other Muslim and Turkish minorities dominated.
Speakers will discuss the evidence of alleged atrocities targeting UyGhurs, including forced labor, forced birth control and religious oppression, and discussing ways to force international action to stop alleged abuse.
“We want it not only having an affair – we collect all these people to combine their expertise and influence to raise bets, to increase pressure on China, to think of ways to end losses in people Uyghur,” said Organizer Jo Smith Finley, an academic who specializes in Uyghur’s study.
“This is a major humanitarian disaster that is increasingly urgent,” he added.
“Is this cultural or cultural genocide, or crime against humanity, and how can we demand it? We really try to refocus what we can do to make this.
Stop.” Academic Adrian Zenz, whose research on forced sterilization among Uyghur women attracts widespread attention to this problem, will present official documents that support the claim that Beijing wants to forcefully reduce the population of Uyghur, Finley said estimated at 1 million or more people – most of them Uyghurs – has been locked up in broad re-education camps in Xinjiang in recent years.
The Chinese authorities have been accused forcing forced labor, control of forced birth systematically and torture, removing the identity of culture and religion Uyghurs, and separating children from imprisoned parents.
Chinese officials have rejected allegations of genocide and harassment rights as unfounding and marking camps as vocational training centers to teach Chinese, work skills, and law to support economic development and radicalism battle.
China saw a wave of terror related to Xinjiang.
The attack until 2016.
Xu Guixiang, spokesman Xinjiang, denied the allegations on the new conference in Beijing this week.
He said the government’s policy had limited militant attacks and restoring stability to the region.
“They said more than 1 million people have been locked in Xinjiang, but in fact most of the training graduates and educational centers get a stable job and live a happy life,” Xu said.
The US government and parliament in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada have stated that Beijing’s policy of the amount of Uyghurs becomes genocide and crime against humanity.
The United States has blocked the import of cotton and tomatoes from Xinjiang and companies related to forced labor in the region, and the European Union and the UK also imposed sanctions on communist party officials.
Apart from such movements and more and more evidence documenting violations, critics say there is not enough political action or international law.
It is not clear whether economic sanctions will force Beijing or Chinese companies to change their ways.
China has also retested by imposing sanctions on Western and institutional individuals, and calling for a leading retailer such as Nike and H & M after they expressed concern about forced labor in Xinjiang.
Finley, the conference organizer, is one of the few British individuals slapped with Chinese sanctions and is prohibited from visiting China earlier this year for his work.
One of the main goals of this conference is to consider whether diplomatic actions – such as diplomatic boycott from the 2022 winter Olympics in Beijing – can be effective in pursuing Chinese accountability.
“There is a lot that we can do in terms of embarrassment,” Finley said.
This conference operates up to Friday and will be traveled online.