While it is not possible to prove the veracity of Sidick’s allegation regarding China’s intent to murder and incarcerate two-thirds of the total Uyghur population, leaving one-third to be forcibly indoctrinated, we know from a trove of leaked Chinese Communist Party documents that Xi Jinping gave a speech to Government officials in Xinjiang in 2014 in which he told them to use the “organs of dictatorship” against the Uyghur minority and show them “absolutely no mercy”.

This makes me sick to my stomach.