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Amid the genocide debate among Western governments over China crackdown against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China Xinjiang Beijing has been re
Washington [US], March 19 (ANI): Amid the ‚genocide debate‘ among Western governments over China’s crackdown against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang, Beijing has been restricting information flow from the area to scrub evidence, leading countries to make determinations as best as they can. Surveillance and censorship have long hindered a full view of conditions in Xinjiang. However, last year, Beijing locked-down borders, citing the coronavirus; expelled foreign journalists who reported on Xinjiang; and scrubbed information off websites across the region, reported Washington Post. „Regimes committing these kinds of crimes typically try to prevent damaging information from getting out,“ said Deborah Mayersen, an Australian expert on genocide. The designation of genocide would become an indelible stain on President Xi Jinping’s legacy and further boost European nations to join the United States in imposing economic sanctions and calls to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

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