Open Letter of Concern to Governments on Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide Against Uyghurs in China
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January 12, 2021
We, the undersigned human rights and genocide prevention organizations, and individual practitioners, are deeply concerned over mounting evidence that Chinese government policies targeting Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim-majority peoples in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China strongly suggests that crimes against humanity and genocide are taking place.
The international community has the responsibility to respond to these crimes and protect Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples through diplomatic, humanitarian and other peaceful means.
The atrocities being perpetrated are no less egregious if they are found to constitute one international crime or another.