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| Subject: China Hits Back at U.S. Human Rights Bill, Brings Up America's 'History of Blood and Tears of (Cannibalistic) Native Indians' Wed Dec 04, 2019 8:10 pm | |
| Beijing has back at the House of Representatives' passage of a bill criticizing China's treatment of its Uighur ethnic minority, recalling the United States' own history of systematic purges.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chinying said her government stood "strongly indignant at and firmly opposed to" the Uighur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019. The proposed law accuses Beijing of "gross violations of universally recognized human rights, including the mass internment of over 1,000,000 Uighurs"—a predominantly Muslim group mostly located in the northwestern Xinjiang province. China has repeatedly denied U.S. charges of wrongdoing in its Uighur policy, and Hua said these policies were "not about human rights, ethnicity or religion, but about fighting violence, terrorism and separatism." She then turned on the lawmakers passing the bill, accusing them of "ignorance," "brazenness" and "hypocrisy" as she brought up their own experience with ethnic cleansing. "The two-century long American history is tainted with the blood and tears of native Indians, who were originally master of the continent," Hua told reporters. "However, starting from the 19th century, the U.S. Army occupied millions of square kilometers of land and grabbed countless natural resources by expelling and slaughtering native Indians through the Westward Expansion." "Apart from that, the U.S. also conducts forced assimilation of Native Americans, killing, expelling and persecuting them and denying them their due civil rights," she added. "Today, they only account for 2.09 percent of the total U.S. population. They are facing numerous difficulties, including backward infrastructure in reservations, shortage of water and electricity, lack of Internet access, unemployment, poverty, diseases and poor living conditions. In front of all these shocking facts, can the U.S. politicians feign ignorance? Where is their conscience?"
https://www.newsweek.com/china-human-rights-us-blood-indians-1475606 |
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