Abstract
Xinjiang, a province in China has been compared to an ‘open-air’ prison due to the myriad of ways in which the Chinese government seeks to monitor the daily activities of the resident Uyghurs. Uyghurs are under close surveillance through traditional and non-conventional ways. Not only are police officials manned on every street but also the Chinese government is also employing state-of-the-art technology in the form of spyware applications which are installed on every Uyghur’s phone and CCTV cameras thus keeping Uyghurs under constant surveillance. Uyghurs who are accused of being ‘too Uyghur’ are arbitrarily taken to concentration camps where they are ‘re-educated’ before being released into the society again, if at all. Children of interned parents are placed in state-run orphanages away from their relatives. Whether one is inside or outside of the camp, the outlook is the same. It is alleged that women are raped and forcibly sterilized. Using the Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, it is the aim of this minor dissertation to evaluate whether these atrocities amount to genocide and crimes against humanity.