Opinion | The Horrors of Xinjiang

The United Nations is too often a protectorate for dictators—see its failure to do much against Russia’s war on Ukraine. But once in a while some part of Turtle Bay can muster the nerve to tell an uncomfortable truth and maybe do some good.

That’s the case this week with the release of the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the repression of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province. It chronicles “serious human rights violations” that “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.”