China’s Xi responsible for Uyghur ‘genocide’: Tribunal

BEIJING, Dec 10 (Reuters) - An unofficial tribunal of lawyers and campaigners said Chinese President Xi Jinping bore primary responsibility for what it said was genocide, crimes against humanity and torture of Uyghurs and members of other minorities in the Xinjiang region.

China dismissed the tribunal, which is headed by British lawyer Geoffrey Nice and has no powers of sanction or enforcement, as a “farce” being used by its enemies to spread lies.

“The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has committed genocide, crimes against humanity and torture against Uyghur, Kazakh and other ethnic minority citizens in the north west region of China known as Xinjiang,” the British-based Uyghur Tribunal said on Thursday.