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Ongoing cultural genocides:

Cultural genocide has always lacked a clear and accepted definition. For this reason, it is not defined as a crime under international law. In addition, the international attention span is naturally limited and tends to focus on the abundant atrocities that can be quantified by death tolls - such as that of the Rohingya in Myanmar. Due to this lack of attention, concern or precedent it is not surprising that cultural genocides are still rife today, with nations exploiting their ability to be concealed and obfuscated by murky international law Perhaps the most prominent example is the cultural genocide of the Uyghur muslims, a Turkic minority in China’s Xinjiang province. The detainment of individuals in ‘political re-education camps’ in an attempt to reshape their identities and religious beliefs, the bans on Uyghur language instruction in schools, the razing of mosques, and the restrictions on signifiers of cultural identity such as hair, dress and names all point to cultural genocide - yet international uproar is concerningly quiet and collective action by the global community has not been taken