Protestors attend a rally for the Uyghur community at Parliament House on March 15, 2021 in Canberra, Australia. According to a major new report by a US-based think tank, Beijing is breaching each and every provision of the UN Genocide Convention, with "intent to destroy" the Uyghurs as a group in China's north-western Xinjiang region. The report, published by Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, is the first independent expert application of the 1948 Genocide Convention to the ongoing treatment of the Uyghurs in China.

Sam Mooy
Protesters attend a rally for the Uyghur community at Parliament House on March 15, 2021 in Canberra, Australia. According to a major new report by a US-based think tank, Beijing is breaching each and every provision of the UN Genocide Convention, with "intent to destroy" the Uyghurs as a group in China's north-western Xinjiang region. The report, published by Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, is the first independent expert application of the 1948 Genocide Convention to the ongoing treatment of the Uyghurs in China.

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