Persecution of the Uyghur population in western China

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News articles

Buzzfeed special report (27 august, 2020):

• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three
• Part Four

AP: “China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization” June 29, 2020

Axios.com: Map of countries condmening China over treatment of Uighurs. Orig. Oct 2020, subsequently updated.

New York Times: “‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims,” Nov. 16, 2019.

CNN (interactive): ‘Black Gold’: How global demand for hair products is linked to forced labor in Xinjiang”

Think Tank and NGO Reports

Australian Strategic Policy Institute: (project home)

• “Uyghurs for Sale”.
• “Documenting Xinjiang’s Detention System.”

Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

• “Evidence submitted to the United Kingdom’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee on the situation in Xinjiang, China” (Jan. 12, 2021)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• “‘To Make Us Slowly Disappear’: The Chinese Government’s Assault on the Uyghurs” (November 2021)

Uyghur Human Rights Project: (reports home)

• “The Happiest Muslims in the World: Disinformation, Propaganda, and the Uyghur Crisis.”
• “Kashgar Coerced: Forced Reconstruction, Exploitation, and Surveillance in the Cradle of Uyghur Culture.”
• “Weaponized Passports: The Crisis of Uyghur Statelessness.”
• “Ideological Transformation: Records of Mass Detention from Qaraqash, Hotan.”
• “Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines.”
• “The Mass Internment of Uyghurs: ‘We want to be r espected as humans. Is it too much to ask?’”
• “The Bingtuan: China’s Paramilitary Colonizing Force in East Turkestan”
• “Open Letter of Concern to Governments on Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide Against Uyghurs in China”

Official and quasi-official sources

Interparliamentary Alliance on China [IPAC}:

• “Statement on the Treatment of Ethnoreligious Minorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region”

Parliament of Canada: 

• Statement by the Subcommittee on International Human Rights Concerning the Human Rights Situation of Uyghurs and Other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, China.

United States Congress: 

• Senate Resolution to Designate Abuses as Genocide
• US Congress: S.3744 - Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020
• US Congress: H.R.6210 - Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
• US Congress: H.R.6270 - Uyghur Forced Labor Disclosure Act

United States Department of State:

• “The United States Imposes Sanctions and Visa Restrictions in Response to the Ongoing Human Rights Violations and Abuses in Xinjiang.”
• “Determination of the Secretary of State on Atrocities in Xinjiang” Jan. 19, 2021

Additional resources

• Uyghur Pulse (video testimony)

• University of British Columbia Xinjiang Documentation Project

• Xinjiang Victims Database