Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly praised a United Nations report on the Chinese government’s abuses of ethnic minorities in its northwestern Xinjiang Province, saying that it adds to the mounting evidence of the communist regime’s crimes against humanity.
Joly said the release of the assessment report on human rights concerns in Xinjiang, on Aug. 31 by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), is “critical.”
“The findings reflect the credible accounts of grave human rights violations taking place in Xinjiang,” Joly said in a statement on Sept. 1.
“This report makes an important contribution to the mounting evidence of serious, systemic human rights abuses and violations occurring in Xinjiang. It finds that the arbitrary and discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity,” the minister said….