The World Uyghur Congress announced a pioneering legal action on Monday against three French subdivisions of the Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei, Hikvision, and Dahua to hold them accountable for providing Beijing with surveillance technology to facilitate the ongoing Uyghur genocide.
Under dictator Xi Jinping, China has implemented policies that international human rights experts have recognized as genocidal to ethnically cleans East Turkistan, which Beijing refers to using the Mandarin colonialist name “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region” (XUAR). Among the measures the Communist Party has taken to eliminate the indigenous Turkic populations of the region, primarily the Uyghur ethnic group, have been the imprisoning of millions in concentration camps, the forced sterilization of entire Uyghur villages, and the effective outlawing of the local religion, Islam, and…
