China dismisses farce performed by clowns, adds comment to Chinese embassy in London BEIJING LONDON, December 10, an unofficial tribunal of lawyers and campaigners said that Chinese President Xi Jinping bore primary responsibility for genocide, crimes against humanity and torture of Uyghurs and members of other minorities in the Xinjiang region.
China has dissolved the tribunal, headed by British lawyer Geoffrey Nice and has no powers of sanction or enforcement. It is a farce used by its enemies to spread lies.
The People's Republic of China PRC has committed genocide, crimes against humanity and torture against Uyghur, Kazakh and other ethnic minority citizens in the north-western region of China known as Xinjiang, according to the British-based Uyghur Tribunal on Thursday.
The Tribunal is satisfied that President Xi Jinping and other very senior officials in the PRC and CCP Chinese Communist Party bear primary responsibility for acts that have occurred in Xinjiang. The World Uyghur Congress WUC, which represents the interests of the mostly Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang and around the world, asked Nice in 2020 to set up an independent tribunal to investigate abuse in Xinjiang.
Some foreign lawmakers and parliaments, as well as the U.S. secretaries of state in both the Biden and Trump administrations, have labelled the treatment of Uyghurs as genocide.
A statement on Thursday by the foreign ministry dismissed the WUC as a separatist organization under the control and funding of anti-China forces in the United States and the West.
A ministry spokeswoman said the court has no legal credentials nor credibility, and the final judgment is a political farce performed by a few clowns. Lies cannot conceal the truth, cannot deceive the international community, nor stop the historic course of Xinjiang's stability, development and prosperity.
More than a million people, mainly Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities, have been detained in a vast system of camps in Xinjiang in recent years, according to UN experts and rights groups.
China initially denied the camps existed, but later said they were vocational centres and designed to combat extremism. In late 2019, China said all of the people in camps had graduated. The Chinese embassy in London said the tribunal was a tool of China's enemies who were spreading lies.
An embassy spokesman said that it was nothing but a political tool used by a few anti-China and separatist elements to mislead the public.
The spokesman said anyone with a conscience and reason will not be fooled or deceived.