{"id":204933,"date":"2021-03-09T16:30:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=204933"},"modified":"2021-03-09T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:30:31","slug":"first-independent-report-on-uyghur-treatment-finds-china-in-breach-of-1948-u-n-genocide-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-independent-report-on-uyghur-treatment-finds-china-in-breach-of-1948-u-n-genocide-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"First Independent Report On Uyghur Treatment Finds China In Breach of 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffirst-independent-report-on-uyghur-treatment-finds-china-in-breach-of-1948-u-n-genocide-convention%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=204933&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/673BFBE8-C0E9-4554-8B7C-94FE8389A00D_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In the first independent, non-governmental legal <a href=\"https:\/\/3y4moi335jqc3hdi6ss66vpc-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chinas-Breaches-of-the-GC.pdf\">examination<\/a> of China\u2019s human rights offenses against the Uyghur population, think-tank Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy found that the Chinese government is responsible for \u201ccommitting genocide against the Uyghurs in breach of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1948 Genocide Convention \u201cis an instrument of international law that codified for the first time the crime of genocide,\u201d according to the United Nations\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/genocideprevention\/genocide-convention.shtml\">website<\/a>. The convention was the \u201cfirst human rights treaty\u201d that the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted. Its purpose was to ensure that the human rights horrors of World War II were never repeated.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/3y4moi335jqc3hdi6ss66vpc-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chinas-Breaches-of-the-GC.pdf\">report<\/a> explains the ways in which the Chinese government is in violation of committing genocide against the Uyghur people. As outlined by Article II of the Genocide Convention, the act of genocide includes the requirement of \u201cintent to destroy\u201d a group. This intent does not necessarily need to come from direct acknowledgements. The report continues, \u201cIntent can be inferred from a collection of objective facts that are attributable to the State, including official statements, a general plan, State policy and law, a pattern of conduct, and repeated destructive acts, which have a logical sequence and result \u2014 destruction of the group as such, in whole or in substantial part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group found that there is evidence of \u201cHigh-level statements of intent and general plan\u201d from President Xi Jinping\u2019s declaration of the \u201cPeople\u2019s War on Terror\u201d focusing on a majority of Uyghur-populated regions, with top authorities then making commands to \u201cround up everyone who should be rounded up,\u201d and \u201cwipe them out completely\u2026destroy them root and branch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The think-tank also included proof regarding the robust policy put in place by the government and \u201cpattern of conduct and repeated destructive acts.\u201d These include mass internment, government-mandated homestays where \u201cCounty government further coerce, incentivize, and actively promote Han-Uyghur marriages,\u201d and a mass birth-prevention strategy of forced sterilization. Uyghur children have also been taken to government facilities in \u201chighly securitized boarding schools and orphanages.\u201d The report found the Chinese government guilty of eradicating \u201cUyghur identity, community, and domestic life\u201d by destroying religious places and cultural components. One of the final pieces of evidence of genocide is displayed in the specific targeting of leaders in the community, which the Chinese government has also committed. \u201cThe deliberate targeting of Uyghur leaders and sacred sites evinces an intent to destroy the essential elements of Uyghur identity and communal bonds, which define the group as such,\u201d the report explains.<\/p>\n<p>The specific acts in Article II of the Genocide Convention that the group found China guilty of violating include: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.<\/p>\n<p>Newlines Institute concluded that the state of China is responsible for the continuing genocide against the Uyghur people, \u201cin breach of the Genocide Convention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United States declared the treatment of the Uyghurs a genocide right before former President Trump left office. While the Biden administration has agreed with that assessment in the past, their recent discussion of semantics regarding genocide have made some question the administration\u2019s stance.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-appears-to-dance-around-question-on-if-they-believe-china-still-committing-genocide-against-uyghurs\">The Daily Wire<\/a> on Tuesday,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The Biden administration did not give a clear answer Monday regarding whether they still believe communist China is continuing its genocide against Uyghur Muslims and other religious minorities in Xinjiang.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When asked about imposing costs on China for its genocide, State Department spokesman Ned Price responded, \u201cWell, to put a fine point on it, the Secretary has made clear that in his judgment, genocide was committed against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A few moments later, Associated Press reporter Matt Lee questioned Price over his use of the word \u201cwas,\u201d and whether that represented a belief by the administration that the genocide was no longer happening.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Price went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-appears-to-dance-around-question-on-if-they-believe-china-still-committing-genocide-against-uyghurs\">say<\/a>, \u201cThese \u2013 the questions of genocide, questions of crimes against humanity, these are always questions that our bureaus are looking at \u2013 it\u2019s not only the Department of State but also our interagency partners \u2013 are looking closely at to form an assessment as to whether these are ongoing\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that moment in time, it was the judgement of Secretary Blinken that genocide had been committed in Xinjiang, just as it was the judgment of Secretary Pompeo, as I understand it, that genocide was committed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy did not make any recommendations or proposals based off their findings, but said they are ready to distribute the report with any \u201crelevant institutions or actors\u201d who are interested.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first independent, non-governmental legal examination of China\u2019s human rights offenses against the Uyghur population, think-tank Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy found that the Chinese government is responsible &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310382,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/673BFBE8-C0E9-4554-8B7C-94FE8389A00D_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"First Independent Report On Uyghur Treatment Finds China In Breach of 1948 U.N. 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