Canada declared China’s treatment of its Muslim Uighur minority a genocide on Monday, an action by the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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Canada is now the second country to declare genocide in the Xinjiang region of China, after the former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
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“On an issue like the genocide, Canada needs to send a clear and unambiguous signal that we will fight for human rights and the dignity of human rights, even if it means sacrificing some economic opportunities,” said Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole last week when requesting the vote on the non-binding resolution, presented by Canada’s main opposition party.
Trudeau and the senior members of his cabinet were not present at the vote. He has been hesitant to support calls to declare the persecution of Uighurs a genocide.
“When it comes to the application of the very specific word genocide, we simply need to ensure that all i’s are dotted and et’s are crossed before such a determination is made,” he said last week.
The Guardian noted that the move could complicate Trudeau’s efforts to maintain stable relations with Beijing, while keeping China’s hostilities under control.
“We are strongly opposed to this because it goes against the facts. And it’s like, you know, interfering in our internal affairs, ”said Cong Peiwu, China’s ambassador to Canada. “There is nothing like the genocide going on in Xinjiang.”
Reports of rape and torture of Uighur prisoners have raised calls for the United Nations to launch an investigation in China.
“The authorities of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) must allow immediate and independent investigations by international observers into these shocking allegations, in addition to other atrocities committed in Xinjiang,” a State Department spokesman told The Hill at the time.