Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday released an annual report on genocide and atrocities prevention. These places represent some of the toughest foreign policy challenges on our agenda," Blinken said.
In January, Blinken affirmed that China was committing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region. The State Department continues to restrict visas for Chinese officials believed to be responsible for detaining or abusing Muslim minorities. The U. Dozens of Chinese companies have also been added to the U. Entity List for their roles in human rights abuses in Xinjiang. The prevention of a genocide is not only a moral responsibility but also an obligation under international law, said some experts, while noting some limitations.
Hundreds of aid workers in Chad were evacuated due to increased tension between rebel groups and military forces. Meanwhile, the Janjaweed have ventured deep into Chad to conduct assaults, resulting in the flight of nearly , Chadians. In July , South Sudan gained independence from Sudan and became its own nation. In and , government forces backed by the Janjaweed led counterinsurgency campaigns in Darfur where they repeatedly attacked villages, burned and looted homes, and beat, raped, and executed villagers.
Violence continued into Amnesty International alleged that the government used chemical weapons against civilians, and , people were displaced due to violence, according to the UN. This ceasefire was extended until the end of However, throughout and , government forces continued to attack villages throughout Darfur, causing deaths and massive displacement of citizens. As of late , over 2 million people remain displaced from the conflict and almost 5 million people in total have been affected.
In April , President Omar al-Bashir was finally ousted. He had been in power for over 30 years and his removal was in response to months of unarmed protests, to which the government responded with armed retaliation. Air campaigns are often followed by Janjaweed militia raids.
All remaining village men, women, and children are either murdered or forced to flee. Looting, burning food stocks, enslaving and raping women and children, and stealing livestock are common.
Dead bodies are tossed in wells to contaminate water supplies and entire villages are burned to the ground. Bush called for the number of international troops in Darfur to be doubled. It is for the crimes against the women of Nanking that this tragedy is most notorious. The Japanese troops raped over 20, women, most of whom were murdered thereafter so they could never bear witness. In , Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, imposed the system of land management know as collectivization.
This resulted in the seizure of all privately owned farmland and livestock. The law demanded that no grain could be given to feed the peasants until a quota was met. By the spring of , an estimated 25, people died every day in the Ukraine.
Deprived of the food they had grown with their own hands, an estimated 7,, persons perished due to the resulting famine in this area known as the breadbasket of Europe. Starting in April , Armenians in the Ottoman armies, serving separately in unarmed labor battalions, were removed and murdered.
Of the remaining population, the adult and teenage males were separated from the deportation caravans and killed under the direction of Young Turk functionaries. Women and children were driven for months over mountains and desert, often raped, tortured, and mutilated. Deprived of food and water, they fell by the hundreds of thousands along the routes to the desert. Ultimately, more than half the Armenian population 1,, people was annihilated.
The Hereros were herdsmen who migrated to the region in the 17th and 18th centuries. Chinese government officials allege there are extremists within the Uyghur community and have said their campaign to "re-educate" the Uyghurs is justified by terrorism concerns. The opinion, written by attorneys with Essex Court Chambers, concludes there is a "credible case" that China's treatment of the Uyghur people amounts to "crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide.
Chinese officials reject such accusations. They have dismissed media reports about mass detentions, rape, forced sterilization and other abuses as biased and fabricated. And it's very unfortunate some people, including some journalists, they start with very strong bias and prejudice," China's ambassador to the U.
Cui said China's campaign was spurred by a "mounting terrorist, extremist and violent ideology among the local population. Media outlets and researchers have used satellite images to map the Chinese government's network of camps and prisons.
Experts with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute have identified at least detention facilities in Xinjiang that have been newly built or expanded since Some estimates put the number of detention facilities as high as 1, Human rights: Blinken blasts the Trump administration's 'unbalanced' emphasis on religious liberty over other human rights. Human rights groups say the Uyghurs have been put in the camps for a variety of reasons, from attending religious ceremonies, wearing a veil or having a beard, or refusing to marry a non-Uyghur.
Starting in , the local government in Xinjiang began criminalizing "virtually all Islamic matters," according to an extensive report by a Washington-based think tank called the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, a consortium based in Canada.
The report, based on interviews with former detainees and other evidence, concluded China bears responsibility "for an ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs" and has breached key elements of the Genocide Convention with its "intent to destroy" an entire ethnic group.
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