UK Parliament Unanimously Declares Chinese Regime Committing Genocide in Xinjiang
The UK Parliament on April 22 unanimously passed a non-binding motion declaring that Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities in China’s Xinjiang region are suffering crimes against humanity and genocide, and called on the UK government to use international law to bring it to an end.
This makes the UK Parliament the third legislature in the world—following Canada and the Netherlands—to approve motions referring to the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang as “genocide.”
The U.S. government in January also declared that the Chinese regime had committed “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, and the U.S. House of Representatives on April 15 introduced a bipartisan resolution condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s genocide against the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities.