Category Archives: Genocide

People in Xinjiang, western China, have been leaking videos using TikTok (Douyin in China) to tell their story through emojis. It’s heartbreaking, scary, and unfair.

Something despicable and barbaric is happening here, the suffering of people is being used as entertainment….

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson;s government avoided officially declaring genocide in Xinjiang, but admitted that there are “industrial-scale” human rights abuses being committed. The government stated that any decision declaring a genocide would be up to national and international courts. 

British lawmakers have declared that China is indeed committing genocide against Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in its northwestern province of Xinjiang. 

The British House of Commons approved on Thursday a parliamentary motion declaring that crimes against humanity and genocide are occuring in China. Radio Free Europe reports that the declaration is non-binding and does not compel the U.K. government to act, but it is a sign that lawmakers are growing increasingly troubled by China’s conduct. 

At least 1.8 million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities are understood to be interned across a network of detention camps in Xinjiang, with numerous abuses reported at hearings in the U.S. Congress. 

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Pompeo claimed that the atrocities being carried out against Uighurs are still “ongoing” and represent “the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared Tuesday that the Chinese Communist Party is committing “genocide” against Uighur Muslims, making the United States the first country to formally do so.

“For the past four years, this Administration has exposed the nature of the Chinese Communist Party and called it what it is: a Marxist-Leninist regime that exerts power over the long-suffering Chinese people through brainwashing and brute force. We have paid particular attention to the CCP’s treatment of the Uyghur people, a Muslim minority group that resides largely in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Western China,” Pompeo wrote in a statement released on his last full day as Secretary of State.

“Their morally repugnant, wholesale policies, practices, and abuses are designed systematically to discriminate against and surveil ethnic Uyghurs as a unique demographic and ethnic group, restrict their freedom to travel, emigrate, and attend schools, and deny other basic human rights of assembly, speech, and worship.”

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