Genocide now has a very specific definition and there’s no need to put “Uyghur genocide” in quotes like you’re trying to deny it’s really a genocide. It absolutely is.

Here’s the definition, all it takes is for any ONE of these criteria to be met for it to be considered a genocide:

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/genocide-conv-1948/article-2

"In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

© Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

So break this down for China’s treatment of the Uyghur:

a) No. Not in, say, the same way Israel is executing Palestinians.

b) Absolutely. Forced imprisonment? Slave labor? Unquestionable.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/china-xinjiang-uyghurs-muslims-repression-genocide-human-rights

The Chinese government has imprisoned more than one million people since 2017 and subjected those not detained to intense surveillance, religious restrictions, forced labor, and forced sterilizations.

The United States determined that China’s actions constitute genocide, while a UN report said they could amount to crimes against humanity.

c) Yes, see above link.

d) Yes, forced sterilizations.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22311356/china-uyghur-birthrate-sterilization-genocide

“In recent months, several Uyghur survivors have testified that the camps themselves have become sites of sterilization by injection, forced IUD implantation, and forced abortion.”

e) Also yes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48825090

“China is deliberately separating Muslim children from their families, faith and language in its far western region of Xinjiang, according to new research.”

So when you have 5 criteria for genocide, ANY of which are enough to qualify, and China’s treatment of the Uyghur hits 4/5? Yeah, that’s a genocide.