Commentary
On Aug. 31, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a highly anticipated report on the ongoing human rights violations and abuses targeting Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang, China.
Released within the final minutes of Michelle Bachelet’s term as U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, the report concludes, that, in Xinjiang, “serious human rights violations have been committed.”
Although the OHCHR regrettably stopped short of determining that the Chinese Communist Party’s targeting of millions is genocide, and even permitted the Party to water down some of the language, the report is a consequential step forward toward advancing freedom in Xinjiang….