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<\/p>\nChina is guilty of ongoing \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d in its oppressive treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, Human Rights Watch said in a detailed report released Monday.<\/p>\n
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, said the report by HRW and Stanford Law School\u2019s Human Rights & Conflict Resolution Clinic.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe Chinese government has committed \u2014 and continues to commit \u2014 crimes against humanity against the Turkic Muslim population,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Chinese government\u2019s apparent goal in creating the camps is the erasure of Turkic Muslim culture and religion,\u201d it said, specifying Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other groups in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n
The ongoing policies violate the 1998\u00a0Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which says widespread or systematic attacks on a civilian population are a crime, the report said.<\/p>\n
It faulted the Chinese government for illegal imprisonment, torture and murder of Uyghurs, and of intentional policies of forced labor and sexual violence toward them.<\/p>\n