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The World Uyghur Congress and Uyghur Human Rights Project have begun the process of filing criminal complaints against the Chinese Communist Party for crimes against humanity and genocide in Argentina, the groups announced on Tuesday.

The Communist Party has been engaging in the genocide of the Uyghur people, a Muslim-majority ethnic group mostly based in occupied East Turkistan, since at least 2017 through the use of concentration camps to kill, torture, indoctrinate, and sterilize millions of people. Outside of the extensive East Turkistan concentration camp system, witnesses have testified that Chinese officials have sterilized entire villages full of Uyghur people in an attempt to eliminate the group. China has also sold an unknown number of Uyghurs as slaves to cotton farms and factories across the country, implicating at least 83 major multinational companies in the use of slave labor.

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The complaint will be submitted under the South America nation’s universal jurisdiction provisions.

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