A group of London barristers on Monday published a “landmark” legal opinion concluding that there’s a “very credible case” that the Chinese regime has committed genocide against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. This first formal legal opinion on the Chinese regime’s treatment of Uyghurs came a day before a crucial vote in Parliament on an amendment which aims to stop and prevent the UK from doing bilateral trade with genocidal countries. “On the basis of the evidence we have seen, this opinion concludes that there is a very credible case that acts carried out by the Chinese government against the Uyghur people in XUAR [Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region] amount to crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide,” the document (pdf), authored by barristers from Essex Court Chambers, reads. Based on Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the document said, “there is sufficient evidence to amount to …