In a report, the UN mentions crimes against humanity in the Chinese region of Xinjiang

Michelle Bachelet will have managed to complete her report on the situation of the Uyghurs just before completing her four-year UN mandate.

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After months of waiting and a controversial visit to the site, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has published her report on Beijing's treatment of the Uyghur minority.

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With our correspondent in Geneva,

Potential crimes against humanity committed in Xinjiang.

The word is released in this report of a little less than fifty pages published, a few minutes before the departure from her post of Michelle Bachelet, High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations.

The report does not bring any real revelation, but brings the seal of the UN to the accusations leveled for a long time against the Chinese authorities.

Its findings are damning for Beijing, which explains why authorities have done everything to prevent its publication.

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," the report said in its findings.

The UN interviewed 40 witnesses or victims of abuses committed in Xinjiang.

Among them, 26 were detained in re-education or “vocational training” camps, according to the official Chinese terminology.

Their story is the same: beatings, torture, forced drug treatment, sometimes rape.

All for months.

Almost unable to communicate with their family.

And above all, for no apparent reason.

If not that of belonging to an ethnic minority hated by the central power.

The report also discusses

and population control through facial recognition systems.

Undoubtedly massive human rights violations, says the UN, which cannot however quantify them.

In any case, the reactions were not long in coming.

If on the side of the NGOs, we deplore that Michelle Bachelet waited so long before publishing the document, Human Rights Watch asks that the Human Rights Council take it up and launch a new investigation.

Amnesty International also demands that the Council " 

" these crimes in Xinjiang.

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 ,” said Dolkun Isa, President of the World Uyghur Congress and added: “ 

»

On the side of Beijing, we denounce a report full of lies and which ignores the reality of Xinjiang. 

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