UK Parliament declares China's treatment of Uighurs a genocide
Source: The Hill
BY TAL AXELROD - 04/22/21 01:06 PM EDT
The U.K. Parliament unanimously voted to declare China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang Province a genocide, marking the latest country to slap the designation on China’s human rights violations in the area.
The move follows similar designations from the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands, all of which have said the crackdown on the minority Muslim group amounts to a genocide.
“Today Parliament has spoken with one voice and called out the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal oppression of Uyghurs for what it is: a genocide. The work does not stop here. We have a solemn obligation under the Genocide Convention to act to prevent further atrocities from taking place. History will not judge us kindly if we fail to do so,” MP Nus Ghani said in a statement released by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.
“Today’s vote must mark a turning point. No one can still deny the scale of the abuses taking place in the Xinjiang region,” added MP Yasmin Qureshi. "That this government is pursuing deeper trade ties with China while these abuses continue is unthinkable.”
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