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Beijing blasts Bob Rae after ambassador calls for UN to investigate genocide claims
Rae has asked the UN Human Rights Council to investigate China's treatment of the country's Uighurs in Xinjiang. Beijing has denied any wrongdoing, saying it is running a voluntary employment and language-training program.
Zhao on Monday used a number of select statistics that suggest China's Uighur population is growing at a faster rate than Canada's population to mock Rae's suggestions that the Uighurs are being persecuted.
However, Zhao's statistics appear to have been incomplete or inaccurate and did not address a report by The Associated Press in June that birthrates have been dramatically cut in Uighur-dominated areas of Xinjiang.
Source: CP24 #Nov17
https://www.cp24.com/news/beijing-blasts-bob-rae-after-ambassador-calls-for-un-to-investigate-genocide-claims-1.5191893
#Canada #Xinjiang #Uighurs #CCP #UN #ReEducationCamp
Rae has asked the UN Human Rights Council to investigate China's treatment of the country's Uighurs in Xinjiang. Beijing has denied any wrongdoing, saying it is running a voluntary employment and language-training program.
Zhao on Monday used a number of select statistics that suggest China's Uighur population is growing at a faster rate than Canada's population to mock Rae's suggestions that the Uighurs are being persecuted.
However, Zhao's statistics appear to have been incomplete or inaccurate and did not address a report by The Associated Press in June that birthrates have been dramatically cut in Uighur-dominated areas of Xinjiang.
Source: CP24 #Nov17
https://www.cp24.com/news/beijing-blasts-bob-rae-after-ambassador-calls-for-un-to-investigate-genocide-claims-1.5191893
#Canada #Xinjiang #Uighurs #CCP #UN #ReEducationCamp