<span style="color: #222222;">A UK-based tribunal has found that China has committed genocide against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. The Uyghur Tribunal cited birth control and sterilization measures allegedly carried out by China against the Uyghurs.<br />''<br />''Sir Geoffrey Nice, a prominent British barrister who chaired the tribunal hearings yesterday said, its panel was satisfied that China had carried out a deliberate, systematic, and concerted policy to bring about a long-term reduction of Uyghur and other ethnic minority populations. He added that the panel believed senior officials including the Chinese President Xi Jinping bore primary responsibility for the abuses against Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region. The tribunal's panel was made up of lawyers and academics. The Tribunal heard from more than 70 witnesses over two sets of hearings in London in June and September, including former detainees and experts.<br />''<br />''The Chinese Government denies all accusations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Responding to the tribunal's ruling, a spokesman said, the body is a pseudo-tribunal and a political tool used by a few anti-China elements to deceive and mislead the public.<br />''<br />''The Chinese state has been accused of crimes against humanity and genocide in Xinjiang, a large region in the country's northwest which is home to the Uyghurs and other minority Muslim groups. Experts say that at least a million Uyghurs and other Muslims have been detained in the region and held in extra-judicial camps or sent to prisons. Former detainees and residents of Xinjiang have made allegations of torture, forced sterilization, and sexual abuse.</span><br />