The United Nations is just too typically a protectorate for dictators—see its failure to do a lot in opposition to Russia’s warfare on Ukraine. However every now and then some a part of Turtle Bay can muster the nerve to inform an uncomfortable reality and perhaps do some good.
That’s the case this week with the discharge of the Workplace of the U.N. Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights report on the repression of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province. It chronicles “severe human rights violations” that “could represent worldwide crimes, specifically crimes in opposition to humanity.”
