The foreign ministers of Australia and New Zealand have expressed their deep concern at the findings and conclusion of the new United Nations (U.N.) report on human rights concerns in Xinjiang and supported calls for China to respond.
The 48-page report, published on Sept. 1 by United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, found evidence that the mostly Muslim ethnic minority groups were subjected to mass internment, forced labour, sexual abuse, family separations, and torture.
U.N. investigators uncovered “credible evidence” of torture possibly amounting to “crimes against humanity” at so-called Vocational Education and Training Centres in China between 2017 and 2019.
Beijing has defended the centres, stating that people in those facilities learn language and job skills….