Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Monday that she has been “actively looking at” ways for the UK to deal with genocidal regimes.
It could bring an end to a months-long tug-of-war in which British lawmakers tried to pressure the government into recognising the Uyghur genocide in China’s Xinjiang region.
Campaigning at an event hosted by the Conservative Friends of Israel, Truss also vowed to follow the issue through and “make sure that regimes committing genocide can be held to account” if she emerges victorious in the leadership contest next month.
In December 2021, an independent people’s tribunal in London, led by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, ruled that the Chinese communist regime had committed genocide against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the far west Xinjiang region….