World Bank ‘funding campaign of repression’ in Xinjiang, says report

WASHINGTON: A new report by a Washington based think tank has accused the World Bank of “funding a campaign of repression” of Uygurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang province.

The Atlantic Council found “significant evidence” that several clients of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a World Bank subsidiary, were “active participants” in a campaign by China for the widespread use of forced labor and forced displacement of people from their land in Xinjiang.