Blinken sagt, dass der Völkermord in Xinjiang im Vorfeld des China-Besuchs noch andauert

In this year’s preface for the State Department’s annual human rights report, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the report “documents ongoing grave human rights abuses in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).”

“For example, in Xinjiang, the PRC continues to carry out genocide, crimes against humanity, forced labor, and other human rights violations against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups,” Blinken said in the preface.

Last year, fifty-one United Nations member countries issued a joint declaration condemning the Chinese government’s crimes against humanity committed against Uyghurs and other Turkic communities, and calling on Beijing to end its systematic human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region.

The UN report corroborated the findings of [Human Rights Watch](https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/19/break-their-lineage-break-their-roots/chinas-crimes-against-humanity-targeting), [Amnesty International](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/china-draconian-repression-of-muslims-in-xinjiang-amounts-to-crimes-against-humanity/)~,~ and others regarding mass detention, torture, cultural persecution, forced labor, and other serious rights violations against Turkic Muslim communities in Xinjiang.

The State Department report, published Monday, comes ahead of a critical visit by Blinken to China scheduled for later in the week.