Category: Xinjiang Province

Rewind, Review and Re-Rate: ‘Karamay’: Communist Officials Saved Themselves as Children Died

September 24, 2022
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13+ | 5h 56min | Documentary | March 28, 2010 Even before the Uyghur genocide currently underway, Xinjiang was the site of terrible human suffering. On Dec. 8, 1994, 323 people died when fire broke out in the crowded Friendship Hall, where school children were entertaining visiting officials. The city’s Communist Party cadres escaped with…

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Ministers Urged to Threaten China With Olympics Boycott Over Xinjiang Abuses

July 6, 2021
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Members of the royal family and UK ministers should boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics unless China allows UN investigators to examine alleged human rights abuses, Labour has said. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden have been urged to announce a political boycott of the Games if Beijing refuses to allow a…

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Lithuanian Parliament Latest to Call China’s Treatment of Uyghurs ‘Genocide’

May 20, 2021
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VILNIUS—The parliament in Lithuania on Thursday became the latest to describe China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority as “genocide”, voting to call for a U.N. investigation of internment camps and to ask the European Commission to review relations with Beijing. The Biden administration in the United States has used the term genocide to describe the…

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