THE UYGHUR MINORITY IN CHINA: A CASE STUDY OF CULTURAL GENOCIDE, MINORITY RIGHTS AND THE INSUFFICIENCY OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK IN PREVENTING STATE-IMPOSED EXTINCTION

The Uyghur Minority in China: A Case Study of Cultural Genocide, Minority Rights and the Insufficiency of the International Legal Framework in Preventing State-Imposed Extinction

Raphael Lemkin, the man who founded the term ‘genocide,’ did so with a view to protecting not only physical beings from systematically imposed extinction, but also protecting their cultures from the same fate.However, in the wake of the atrocities and bloodshed of WWII, cultural genocide was omitted dea eyewear from the 1948 Genocide Co

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