A bipartite group of American legislators has announced this week a bill that would expand existing sanctions to combat what a senator called “a deliberate and systematic campaign to destroy the Uighur people” – one of the bills targeting China on their treatment of minority groups, dissidents and Taiwan while bilateral trade negotiations are continuing.
The measure would expand sanctions under a previous law to include actions such as forced separations from the family and the harvesting of organs. He would also deny entry to the United States for people who participated in forced abortions or sterilizations. In the interviews with RFA UGHUR, Uighur women detailed the birth control procedures which, according to them, were forced by the authorities of the autonomous region or ouïgure of the Xinjiang in China.
The bill would prohibit the American army from buying Chinese seafood by concern that forced Uighur and North Korean work is used in its production.
He would order the State Department to create a plan to counter Chinese propaganda which denies “genocide, crimes against humanity and other obvious human rights abusers experienced by Uighurs and other groups of ethics with Muslim predominance” in Xinjiang. It is also suitable for $ 2 million for the Smithsonian to create research and programs that would preserve the Uighur language and culture threatened by the Chinese government.
“The evidence is clear. The Chinese Communist Party has led a deliberate and systematic campaign to destroy the Uighur people by forced sterilization, mass internment and forced labor,” said senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), the president of the Congression-Executive Commission on China and one of the co-sponsors of the bill. “This legislation guarantees that the United States is responsible not only for the authors of these horrible crimes, but also for those who support or take advantage of them.”
The representative Chris Smith (RN.J.), Senator Jeff Merkley (D-ear), the representative Tom Suozzi (Dn.y., and the representative John John Moolenaar (R-Mich.
Rushan Abbas, Executive Director of the Campaign for Ughurs, a defense group for defenders of the United States, and the president of the Executive Committee of the Uighur World Congress, an international organization promoting Uighur rights, said that the introduction of the measure is “a critical stage towards the dismantling of the control and repression systems that allowed the genocide and the devastated working families”.
“For the Uighurs who have endured years of silence and separation, this bill represents a significant step towards the exhibition of truth, justice and the creation of family reunification paths,” said Abbas to RFA.
American legislators have also planned to disclose a bill which would aim to help Taiwan and to support countries which maintain official diplomatic relations with his government, as well as a measure to fight against the efforts of any foreign government to reach its borders to intimidate, harass or harm militants, dissidents or journalists.
In response to bills, the Chinese Foreign Ministry rejected US accusations on the Xinjiang and Taiwan on Tuesday.
“The related charges are fully manufactured and are malicious slanders,” said the ministry.
The measures arise as the deadline of August 12 is looming for a sustainable trade agreement between the United States and China. An American official told journalists that progress was underway for an agreement, Reuters reported on Friday.
Includes Reuters’ reports.