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UK Government refuses to declare atrocities in Xinjiang a genocide
Today, the Foreign Affairs Committee publishes the Government Response to its report “Never Again: The UK’s Responsibility to Act on Atrocities in Xinjiang and Beyond”. The Government states that it will not “make determinations in relation to genocide” in response to the Committee’s recommendation to “accept Parliament’s view that Uyghurs and other ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang are suffering genocide and crimes against humanity”.
Never Again: The UK’s Responsibility to Act on Atrocities in Xinjiang and Beyond
This report contains a comprehensive account of the measures available to the UK government and international partners to stop the atrocities the Chinese government is committing in Xinjiang. It covers the multilateral action available to the UK, through the UN and other means, measures needed to remove Uyghur forced labour from UK supply chains, as well as the changes needed to the UK’s atrocity prevention strategy to improve the response to future mass atrocities.