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Published 16 April 2021
Recent news coverage of the ongoing situation in Xinjiang has focused on whether or not those events meet the international legal definition of genocide.The majority of nonacademic pieces seem to presume, however, that
if genocide is occurring, it must be a particular kind of genocide the kind with torture and mass killings, like we saw in the Holocaust, Yugoslavia or Rwanda.But international law identifies five
actus rei, each independently sufficient to constitute genocide. Among those guilty acts are birth prevention and the forcible transfer of children, both of which carried out by the Chinese government in Xinjiang.