The Xinjiang genocide allegations are unjustified
Jeffrey D. Sachs and William Schabas / May 10, 2021 / 4 min readSyndicated
According to Jeffrey Sachs and William Schabas, there are credible charges of human rights abuses against Uighurs, but those do not per se constitute genocide. And we must understand the context of the Chinese crackdown in Xinjiang, which had essentially the same motivation as America’s foray into the Middle East and Central Asia after the September 2001 attacks: to stop the terrorism of militant Islamic groups.