News Analysis Is there a genocide going on in the United States? I don’t think so. But on Feb. 4, a professor from Northwestern University compared the genocide against the Uyghurs in China to sports injuries in the United States. In the Xinjiang region of China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has subjected Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims to travel bans, detention in reeducation centers, forced labor, home visits, sexual assault, forced abortions, and forced sterilization. Uyghurs outside China get calls from police officials to return home, and if they fail to do so, bad things happen to their family members still in Xinjiang. This persecution by the regime, approved at the highest levels, including by Xi Jinping, have together led to a fall in the Uyghur population, and constitute genocide per the U.N. definition. Genocide is the world’s worst crime, which the professor, J.A. Adande, minimized in his ESPN …
On ESPN, Professor Equates China Genocide to Sports Injuries
February 13, 2022
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