China's Xi responsible for Uyghur 'genocide', unofficial tribunal says
The HinduAn unofficial tribunal of lawyers and campaigners said on December 9 that Chinese President Xi Jinping bore primary responsibility for what it said was genocide, crimes against humanity and torture of Uighurs and Kazakhs in Xinjiang. "The People's Republic of China has committed genocide, crimes against humanity and torture against Uyghur, Kazakh and other ethnic minority citizens in the north west region of China known as Xinjiang," said the Uighur Tribunal. U.N. experts and rights groups estimate over a million people, mainly Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, have been detained in recent years in a vast system of camps in China's western Xinjiang region. "Lies cannot conceal the truth, cannot deceive the international community nor stop the historic course of.Xinjiang's stability, development and prosperity," the Ministry spokesperson said of the Uighur tribunal.