Uyghurs in Australia call for genocide declaration in wake of report into China’s Xinjiang region policies

Beijing is breaching each and every provision of the UN Genocide Convention, with “intent to destroy” the Uyghurs as a group in China’s north-western Xinjiang region, according to a major new report by a US-based think tank.

The report, published by Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, is the first independent expert application of the 1948 Genocide Convention to the ongoing treatment of the Uyghurs in China.

Based on an “extensive review…