London: Representative Mr. Sonam Tsering Frasi, Office of Tibet, London participated in an online event titled 'Together for Uyghur- A Holocaust Memorial event jointly hosted by two organizations: René Cassin, the Jewish voice for human rights and CSW, a Christian human rights organization specializ
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Members of the Muslim Uighur minority hold placards as they demonstrate in front of the Chinese consulate on December 30, 2020, in Istanbul, to ask for news of their relatives. (Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty Images)
The United States government has declared the Chinese government is committinggenocideagainst the Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority, in northwest China.
Last week, outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called China’s actions against the Uighurs “crimes against humanity.” The Biden administration agrees that the mass internment, forced labor and sterilization of Uighur women constitutes a genocide.
The U.S. is now the only country to use these terms to describe China’s human rights abuses against theUighurs. Rushan Abbas, an activist and leader of the Campaign for Uyghurs, says the declaration is a long-time coming.
Campaign for Uighurs against China s persecution of ethnic minorities
Ethnic minorities in China have been persecuted, lost all forms of privacy and even been forced into pseudo-slavery by the Chinese regime. UN human rights panel expressed grave concerns that there were credible reports that China is holding a million Uighur Muslims in mass detention camps in Xinjiang province (Image Source: Twitter/@ani digital)
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Updated: Jan 22, 2021, 11:34 PM IST
China is currently one of the foremost human rights abusers in the world. From the monks of occupied Tibet to the Uighur Muslims of occupied East Turkistan (Xinjiang In China), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) led by President Xi Jinping has hounded the ethnic minorities in China for decades.
Highlights
Ethnic minorities in China have been persecuted, lost all forms of privacy, and even been forced into pseudo-slavery by the Chinese regime
Some of these continue to struggle against CCP s attempts to erase their unique identities
Both inside and outside China, activists have stood up to the unfair and repressive policies of the Chinese government
New Delhi: China is currently one of the foremost human rights abusers in the world. From the monks of occupied Tibet to the Uighur Muslims of occupied East Turkistan (Xinjiang In China), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) led by President Xi Jinping has hounded the ethnic minorities in China for decades.