’Attack on humanity’

WASHINGTON: China is guilty of ongoing “crimes against humanity” in its brutal treatment of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, Human Rights Watch said in a detailed report released on Tuesday.

Beijing has imprisoned more than one million members of the main ethnic group in its western Xinjiang region and keeps millions more under a tough system of surveillance and controls, the report states.

“The Chinese government continues to commit crimes against humanity against the Turkic Muslim population,” the report said. “The Chinese government’s apparent goal in creating the camps is the erasure of Turkic Muslim culture and religion.”

It also calls for the UN to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the allegations.