‘This genocide is ongoing’: Pompeo equates China’s Uighur repression with Nazi Holocaust

Chinese officials are perpetrating a genocide against Uighur Muslims, according to a U.S. determination that equates the repression with the Nazi atrocities against Jews during the Holocaust.

“I have determined that the PRC, under the direction and control of the [Chinese Communist Party], has committed genocide against the predominantly Muslim Uighurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a Tuesday bulletin. “I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uighurs by the Chinese party-state.”