When Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom Liu Xiaoming was recently asked to explain footage from the Xinjiang region showing hundreds of restrained, blindfolded men waiting to be loaded onto a train, he awkwardly evaded the question. The reality is that these men were being transferred through China’s network of internment camps, where an estimated 1 to 3 million Uighur Muslims are currently detained due to their ethnic and religious identity.
New revelations of forced sterilizations indicate the situation is only getting worse. As evidence increasingly points to genocide in Xinjiang, it is time for the Trump administration to issue a determination on atrocity crimes committed against Uighurs and other ethnic minority Muslims.
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