[b]Pompeo declares China's treatment of Uighurs 'genocide'[/b]
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  • 22:25 19 January 2021

[b]Pompeo declares China's treatment of Uighurs 'genocide'[/b]

On his way out of the door, Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, has hit China with new sanctions by declaring that China’s policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities in western Xinjiang province constitute a “genocide”, ONA reports quoting the Guardian.

Pompeo made the determination on Tuesday just 24 hours before Joe Biden takes office. There was no immediate response from the incoming Biden team, although several members have been sympathetic to such a designation in the past. Pompeo’s determination does not come with any immediate repercussions.

“I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uighurs by the Chinese party-state,” Pompeo said in a statement.

“We will not remain silent. If the Chinese Communist Party is allowed to commit genocide and crimes against humanity against its own people, imagine what it will be emboldened to do to the free world, in the not-so-distant future,” said Pompeo, whose vociferous criticism of Beijing has been a hallmark of his tenure.

Faig Mahmudov

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