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CHINA has dismissed the ruling of a self-appointed tribunal that it is committing genocide in Xinjiang as “neither legal nor credible.”
The Uyghur Tribunal, a body set up by activists and promoted by separatist lobby group the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), said today that after hearing testimony from alleged victims and “China experts” such as evangelical Christian Adrian Zenz it believed China “deliberately intended to bring about the partial destruction of the Uighur community and its way of life.”
Its conclusion announced today coincides with the launch of US President Joe Biden’s “summit for democracy,” which China views as an anti-communist jamboree designed to ramp up international tensions.
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Washington and its Western allies decry human rights abuses while arming and shielding Israel, turning contradiction into policy, argues RAMZY BAROUD
VIJAY PRASHAD looks at the web of militias and drug-trafficking gangs that emerged in the Sweida region through the Syrian civil war, and how they relate to recent clashes and Israel’s intervention