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The United States led the world in exposing the “horrific” abuses of rights in China’s Xinjiang Province and imposing sanctions on officials of the Chinese Communist Party, said outgoing US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.
On Saturday (local time), Pompeo lauded America’s efforts to bring the Uyghur issue to the fore on Twitter, saying that America stopped imports of products made from forced labour and gave Uyghur women a platform to tell the world about their families who had been disappeared by the Communist Party of China.
In exposing the horrendous abuses in Xinjiang, we led the world. Sanctions have been imposed on CCP officials, imports of forced labour products have been halted, and so much more.
“We also gave courageous Uyghur females a structure to tell the world about their family members who were disappeared by the #CCP,” he added.
We led the world in exposing the horrific abuses in Xinjiang. Imposed sanctions on CCP officials, halted imports of products made with forced labor, and so much more. When the world averts its eyes, America speaks up, and acts. #StandWithUyghurs https://t.co/neUqG82loq
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) January 17, 2021
We also gave courageous Uyghur women a platform to tell the world about their families who were disappeared by the #CCP. #NeverForget #StandWithUyghurs pic.twitter.com/LU8GWZJjQX
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) January 17, 2021
The United States spearheaded the campaign against the CCP under the Trump administration for its abuse of human rights in Xinjiang. Pompeo said in July last year that it was time “for a new alliance of democracies” to counter the aggressive policies of Beijing.
Recently, in a new report, a U.S. Congressional commission said that China may have carried out “genocide” against Uyghurs and other minority Muslims in its western Xinjiang region.
The report, published by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), stated that unprecedented steps have been taken by the Chinese government and the Communist Party to expand their repressive policies through censorship, intimidation, and detention of people in China for exercising their basic human rights.
