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US Senate Proposed Bipartisan Resolution Seeking to Declare "Genocide" of Uyghurs in China
Many US senators proposed a resolution on Tuesday (October 27), seeking to officially declare China's measures against Uyghurs and other Turkic-speaking Muslims in Xinjiang a genocide.
A group of bipartisan senators jointly proposed the draft resolution, but the Congress will not consider it until after the general election next week at the earliest. The resolution states that "China's measures against the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region constitute genocide".
Republican Senator John Cornyn, the sponsor, said the resolution is a first step toward holding China accountable for its horrific actions. The Co-sponsor, Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley, said the United States could no longer remain silent. He added, "China's aggression against the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, including its escalating surveillance, imprisonment, torture, and forced 're-education camps', is nothing short of genocide”.
Source: Apple Daily #Oct28
https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20201028/YYYULP42F5BA5EAH26KU3B7W2I/
#Xinjiang #Uyghurs #USSenate #Kazakhs #EthnicMinoritiesInChina #ChinaGenocideOfUyghurs #MuslimsInChina #ReEducationCamps #JohnCornyn #JeffMerkley
Many US senators proposed a resolution on Tuesday (October 27), seeking to officially declare China's measures against Uyghurs and other Turkic-speaking Muslims in Xinjiang a genocide.
A group of bipartisan senators jointly proposed the draft resolution, but the Congress will not consider it until after the general election next week at the earliest. The resolution states that "China's measures against the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region constitute genocide".
Republican Senator John Cornyn, the sponsor, said the resolution is a first step toward holding China accountable for its horrific actions. The Co-sponsor, Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley, said the United States could no longer remain silent. He added, "China's aggression against the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, including its escalating surveillance, imprisonment, torture, and forced 're-education camps', is nothing short of genocide”.
Source: Apple Daily #Oct28
https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20201028/YYYULP42F5BA5EAH26KU3B7W2I/
#Xinjiang #Uyghurs #USSenate #Kazakhs #EthnicMinoritiesInChina #ChinaGenocideOfUyghurs #MuslimsInChina #ReEducationCamps #JohnCornyn #JeffMerkley
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China’s Uyghurs living in a ‘dystopian hellscape’, says Amnesty report
Amnesty International has collected new evidence of human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region of China, which it says has become a “dystopian hellscape” for hundreds of thousands of Muslims subjected to mass internment and torture.
The human rights organisation has collected more than 50 new accounts from Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities who claim to have been subjected to mass internment and torture in police stations and camps in the region.
Source: The Guardian#Jun10
https://t.co/7zp352CCrM
#China #Uyghur #Xinjiang #Kazakhs #Muslim #HumanRight
Amnesty International has collected new evidence of human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region of China, which it says has become a “dystopian hellscape” for hundreds of thousands of Muslims subjected to mass internment and torture.
The human rights organisation has collected more than 50 new accounts from Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities who claim to have been subjected to mass internment and torture in police stations and camps in the region.
Source: The Guardian#Jun10
https://t.co/7zp352CCrM
#China #Uyghur #Xinjiang #Kazakhs #Muslim #HumanRight