Newlines Institute for Policy and Strategy, a D.C. think tank, this week issued a 55-page report (full text) titled The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention. According to the Report's Introduction:
This report concludes that the People’s Republic of China ... is committing an ongoing genocide against the Uyghur ethnic group, in violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.... The report examines key pertinent developments in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ... from May 2013, when the XUAR Government released the earliest known document laying the groundwork for the mass internment campaign, to the present. These events follow a long history of persecution against the Uyghurs in China. The report specifically considers the question of State responsibility under international law for breaches of the Genocide Convention, not the individual criminal liability of particular leaders or perpetrators.
