U.S. slams China on human rights violations in Xinjiang, vows to hold Beijing accountable

The U. S. has welcoming the damning U. N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Report on human rights violations in China’s Xinjiang region

Slamming China for its continued violation of human rights of minority communities in Xinjiang, Tibet and elsewhere in the country, the US has vowed to work closely with its partners and the international community to hold Beijing accountable for its abhorrent actions against its own people.

Welcoming the damning U. N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Report on Xinjiang that was released on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karen Jean-Pierre said it deepened "our grave concern regarding the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity that China is perpetrating."

"The United States welcomes this report — this important report, which describes authoritatively the abhorrent human rights treatment of the Uyghur and other minority communities by the People’s Republic of China government," she said during her daily news conference on Thursday.

The report said China's discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity.

"Our position on the atrocities in Xinjiang has been clearly demonstrated with our words and in our actions," Ms. Jean-Pierre said.

The Biden administration has taken concrete measures and the President has rallied allies and partners, including the G7, to ensure all global supply chains are free from the use of forced labour including from Xinjiang, she said.

"We will continue to work closely with partners and the international community to hold China accountable, and we will call on China to immediately cease committing these atrocities, release those unjustly detained, account for those disappeared, and allow independent investigators full and unhindered access to Xinjiang, Tibet, and across China," Ms. Jean-Pierre said.