The United Nations Report Calls China Possibly Doing Humanitarian Crimes In Xinjiang, Beijing: Lies Created To Damage China's Stability

Illustration of the air photo of Xinjiang City. (Wikimedia Commons/Anagoria)

JAKARTA - The UN's Chief Human Rights in a report said on Wednesday China's arbitrary and discriminatory detention of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in the Xinjiang region may be a crime against humanity.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, who has faced criticism from some diplomats and rights groups for being too lenient on China, released the report just minutes before her four-year term ended. He visited China in May.

The 48-page report said "serious human rights violations have been carried out" in Xinjiang "in the context of implementing the government's counter-terrorism and counter-extremism strategy".

"The level of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of Uighur members and other Muslim majority groups could constitute international crimes, particularly crimes against humanity," the report said.

Furthermore, the report recommends the Chinese Government take immediate steps to release all detained in training centers, prisons or detention facilities.

"There are indications of a credible violation of reproductive rights through coercion in KB policies since 2017," the report said.

The report said the government's lack of data "made it difficult to draw conclusions on the full enforcement of this policy and violations of reproductive rights."

Regarding this report, China vehemently denies the accusations in it. The Chinese mission in Geneva described the report as a planned 'lelucon' by the United States, Western countries, and anti-China forces, based on false information and false assumptions of guilt.

Speaking ahead of the release of the report, China's ambassador to the United Nations in New York, Zhang Jun, said Beijing had repeatedly voiced opposition to such reports.

He emphasized that the UN Head of Human Rights should not interfere in China's internal affairs.

"We all know very well that the so-called Xinjiang issue is a completely fabricated lie from political motivation and its goals, to undermine China's stability and to hinder Chinese development," Zhang told reporters.

"We don't think it will lead to goodness for anyone, it just undermines cooperation between the United Nations and member states," he said.

Reuters reported last month that China had asked Bachelet to bury the report, according to a Chinese letter confirmed by diplomats.

Bachelet last week confirmed it had received the letter, saying it was signed by about 40 countries, with his office not going to respond to such pressure.