The editor-in-chief of one of China’s state-owned newspapers has accused Australia of committing genocide in the wake of criticism over alleged human rights violations.
The Chinese government has been under intense scrutiny from human rights groups over the treatment of the Uyghur population in the region of Xinjiang, which borders Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia in the country’s northwest.
Hu Xijin, of the tabloid Global Times, took fire in a tweet overnight suggesting Australia and the US were showing hypocrisy in their condemnation of the Asian superpower due to their historic treatment of indigenous peoples.
“What’s genocide? Massacring native Americans and Aboriginal Australians, forcing people colonised to speak English, French, Spanish, transforming their way of life, these are genocide, right?” he wrote.
The Global Times is under the umbrella of the Chinese Communist Party run newspaper the People’s Daily, the official publication of the country’s Central…
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