'The Evidence is Overwhelming': New Report Accuses China's Leaders of Genocide Against Millions of Muslims
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- The authors of a new report say
they have proof that Beijingis intent on destroying
China's Muslim Uighur population
as part of a broadercampaign to unify the country
under one ethnic identity.
- The evidence is overwhelmingthat China is clearly
in breach of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
- [Announcer] That evidence included
public and leaked Chinese state documents,
testimony from more than10,000 eyewitnesses,
and satellite images.
(patriotic music)
The overall conclusion:
It all points to PresidentXi Jinping's brutal goal
to meld the country's55 ethnic minorities,
including Uighurs, intoChina's Han culture.
Han Chinese account for morethan 90% of the population.
- You know, he himselfis less of a communist
and more of a Han nationalist.
You know, he is in theprocess of sinofication
of the entire country, andit's not just the Uighurs
that are Muslims; they arethe most prominent ones,
but there's actually other minorities too,
there's Kazachs, there'sUzbeks, et cetera,
and even actually Christian minorities.
They have a process ofbulldozing their churches.
- [Announcer] Seven years
after President Xi toldauthorities to show
absolutely no mercy to the Uighurs,
as many as 2 million ofthem are now locked up
in concentration campsspread across China's
Xinjiang province.
There, they endure torture,rape, forced sterilization,
slave labor, and are strippedof their Muslim faith
and told to embrace communist ideology.
- The Chinese communistpropagandists call this
reeducation camps
or vocational training centers.
They must think we're idiots.
- [Announcer] Some halfa million Uighur children
have been removed from their parents,
placed in state-runorphanages and brainwashed.
- Forced labor andcentralized care of children,
so often effectively inhibit
the intergenerationaltransmission of culture,
religion, and language
by reducing joint familytimes, and instead
drastically increasing parents'and children's exposure
to a secular governmentteaching and training.
- [Announcer] The governmentis reportedly sending
Han Chinese men to sleepwith Muslim Uighur women,
while their husbands are in prison
or shipped against theirwill to far off towns
and cities, all in an effortto promote ethnic unity.
- Han Chinese are actually being moved
from other parts of Chinaand to, and to Xinjiang,
and they're encouraged to, in many cases,
forcibly marry Uighurwomen to essentially dilute
their identity through their offspring,
so this is a very calculatedand thought-out process
from the state apparatus in China.
- [Announcer] China has repeatedly denied
its ethnic policies amount to genocide.
- [Translator] The claimthat there's genocide
in Xinjian could not be more preposterous.
It's just a rumor fabricatedwith ulterior motives,
and a total lie.
- [Announcer] Meanwhile,dozens of U.S. companies,
like Nike, Coca-Cola,Adidas, Tommy Hilfiger,
and others are facing renewed pressure
to stop using Uighur workersto produce their goods
in Xinjiang province factories.
The United States Commissionon International Religious
Freedom accused thesecompanies of complicity,
fueling Uighur persecution.
- If corporate America won't take action,
consumers need to, and stop doing business
with companies like Nike and Coca-Cola
and others who benefitfrom forced labor in China.
- [Announcer] Secretaryof state Antony Blinken
will meet top Chineseofficials in Alaska next week.
He is expected to bring upBeijing's actions in Xinjiang.
- If China claims thatthere is nothing going on,
that it give access to theinternational community,
to the United Nations.
If they have nothingto hide, show it to us.
Show, show the world.
- [Announcer] George Thomas, CBN news.