Referring to a persistent pattern of alleged State-imposed forced labour involving ethnic minorities across multiple provinces in China, the experts have said, “In many cases, the coercive elements are so severe that they may amount to forcible transfer and/or enslavement as a crime against humanity.”
Noting that forced labour in China is enabled through the State-mandated “poverty alleviation through labour transfer” programme in the case of Xinjiang, the experts have said Tibetans are also subjected to forced labour through similar schemes such as the Training and Labour Transfer Action Plan, which involves systematic training and transfer of “rural surplus labourers.”
