US senators seek to declare Uighur ‘genocide’ by China in bipartisan push
Republican senator John Cornyn says resolution ‘is the first step toward holding China accountable for their monstrous actions’
US senators have sought to declare that China is committing genocide against Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking Muslims, a step that could increase pressure on Beijing over the plight of an estimated one million-plus people being held in detention camps.
The text states that China’s campaign “against Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and members of other Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region constitutes genocide”.
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