China on Thursday lashed out at the U.N. over its release of a damning report on Beijing's crackdown on ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, calling it a 'farce' and politically motivated attempt to smear China.
that found Beijing’s crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region involved “serious human rights violations,” including possible crimes against humanity.Hours after the release of the long-awaited report, Liu Yuyin, spokesperson for the Chinese mission to Geneva, called the “so-called ‘assessment’ on Xinjiang” a “farce” and a politically motivated attempt to smear China.
“We all know so well that the so-called Xinjiang issue is completely a fabricated lie out of political motivations. Its purpose definitely is to undermine China’s stability and obstruct China’s development,” he said, telling BacheletIn a joint statement signed by 63 Uyghur advocacy groups, activists welcomed the report, describing it as the “most definitive assessment of the issues faced by Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples” in China.
Based on those interviews, the U.N. rights office said that it was “reasonable to conclude that a pattern of large-scale arbitrary detention” occurred in facilities that Chinese officials describe as free vocational training centers. These detentions occurred at least between the years of 2017 and 2019, “affecting a significant portion” of the Uyghur and other Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, the report concluded.
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