Crimes against humanity may have been committed in China’s Xinjiang region, the UN said in a report released overnight Wednesday to Thursday. other predominantly Muslim groups (…) may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity”, indicates the UN in a report published on the night of Wednesday to Thursday. Michelle Bachelet, of which it was the last day at the head of the Office of the High Commissioner after a four-year mandate, thus keeps his promise in extremis by publishing the document shortly before midnight in Geneva. If it does not seem to contain any revelations compared to what was already known the situation in Xinjiang, this document brings the seal of the UN to the long-standing accusations against the Chinese authorities. Its publication had been the subject of intense pressure from those who wanted to make it public and, conversely, to prevent it er to see the light of day from Beijing, which considers the report a “farce” orchestrated by the West, led by Washington.”Massive human rights violations”In it, the UN called on the community organization to act urgently in the face of accusations of torture and sexual violence in Xinjiang which the organization considers “credible”. conditions of detention, are credible, as are individual allegations of sexual and gender-based violence,” writes the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in the report. This report “lays bare , China’s massive human rights violations,” said Sophie Richardson, China director of the NGO Human Rights Watch. The UN human rights council “should use this report to launch a full investigation into the Chinese government’s crimes against humanity,” she said. Amnesty International also demands that the Council “establish an independent international mechanism to investigate” these crimes in Xinjiang. , UN agencies and companies”, rejoiced Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress and added: “The time for accountability is now ringing”. China is therefore furious. The document is based “on disinformation and lies fabricated by anti-China forces” and “wantonly defames and slanders China and interferes in China’s internal affairs”, writes the Chinese Embassy to the UN in Geneva in the comment attached to the report