Category: genocide

Australia and New Zealand Welcome Multilateral Sanctions on Chinese Officials

Australia and New Zealand have joined together to release a statement expressing their grave concerns about the severe human rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China. This comes after the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union jointly unveiled parallel Magnitsky-style sanctions on six Chinese officials. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne and New…


Facebook Runs Ads for Products of Genocide in China

As lawmakers on both Capitol Hill and in Parliament in the UK meet this week to discuss legislation responding to the genocide of Uyghurs in China, The Epoch Times has received evidence linking Facebook ad revenue to Chinese companies profiting from that genocide. The advertisement of Uyghur hair on Facebook places the social media giant…


The Xinjiang Genocide

Commentary In Xinjiang, located in western China, the Chinese Communist Party is aggressively working to eradicate the faith and culture of the Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minority communities. On March 10, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio provided a written statement for a U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom hearing entitled, “A Religious Minority Enslaved: Addressing the…


Australian Government Blocks Genocide Motion to Recognize Beijing’s Actions Against Uyghurs

The federal government and Labor have blocked a Senate motion on Monday, which called on the Australian government to recognise Beijing’s actions in the Xinjiang region against Uyghurs as “genocide.” Brought up by Independent Senator Rex Patrick from South Australia, the motion centred on China’s human rights issue. Other than urging the Senate to recognise…


O’Toole: ‘We Need a New Approach’ on China

Two decades ago, the Western world brought China into the rules-based trading system of the World Trade Organization, the argument being that helping China develop economically would entice the communist regime to respect human rights and the rule of law. “We’ve been wrong,” Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole told The Epoch Times in an interview….


Dallaire Says ‘Self Interest’ Is Obstructing Canadian Cabinet’s Response to Uyghur Genocide in China

Retired Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire said self-interest is what’s obstructing the Canadian government from calling out Beijing over its genocide against the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. “Self-interest and a lack of wanting to take the risk of holding accountable great nations who do horrible things is still prevalent,” Dallaire said in an interview on CBC’s Power…


UK Should Boycott Beijing Winter Olympics Over Uyghur Genocide: Liberal Democrats Leader

Britain should boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics because there is “overwhelming” evidence the Chinese regime is committing genocide against the Uyghur minority, the leader of the UK’s Liberal Democrats has said. “The Liberal Democrats, like many other people, have seen the evidence coming out from Xinjiang in western China that the Chinese authorities are…


Dutch Parliament: China’s Treatment of Uyghurs Is Genocide

AMSTERDAM— The Dutch parliament on Thursday passed a non-binding motion saying the treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority in China amounts to genocide, the first such move by a European country. Activists and U.N. rights experts say at least one million Muslims are being detained in camps in the remote western region of Xinjiang. The…


UK’s Johnson Refuses to Boycott Beijing Winter Olympics Over Uyghur Abuse

Britain does not favour sporting boycotts, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday when asked if he thought the UK should boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over the abuse of Uyghurs. At the Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, said: “Today, millions of Uyghur people…


O’Toole Calls on Trudeau, Liberal Cabinet to Recognize Uyghur Genocide in China

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is calling for the Liberal cabinet to “respect Parliament and officially recognize” Bejing’s persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China a genocide—after the cabinet abstained themselves from voting the motion that intended to declare the atrocities committed as so. “Today, Members from all parties voted to recognize the genocide…