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ATruepatriot
05-23-2019, 11:39 AM
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a bill Tuesday that, if enacted, would call for sanctions[...] over the mass imprisonment of potentially millions of Muslims in concentration camps in eastern Xinjiang province.

building hundreds of “re-eduation centers” that it claims are “vocational training” facilities for Uighurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other minorities. “concentration camps” – locations where they are taken by force to learn Mandarin, renouncing their Muslim faith, memorize communist propaganda songs, and engage in slave labor.

Survivors report the widespread use of torture, including electroshock and sleep deprivation, killing up to 3 million Muslims and others of inconvenient ethnic or religious identity.

Menendez (D-NJ) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced the bill. It received widespread bipartisan support : Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

The bill urges President Donald Trump to “condemn abuses against Turkic Muslims by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang and call on Chinese President Xi immediately close the ‘political reeducation’ camps.”

“impose targeted sanctions The bill also suggests that Chinese corporations building and maintaining the camps should be added to the Department of Commerce “Entity List” that restricts business with Americans.

The bill’s major requirement, is a report on national security threats to the United States that may arise from the abuses in Xinjiang from the Director of National Intelligence.

as many as 1,200 concentration camps for Muslims. “at least a million but likely closer to 3 million citizens out of a population of about 10 million”

Outside of the camp, residents of Xinjiang say that China has turned their province into a sprawling surveillance state and are using force and threats of imprisonment to get residents to abandon their Uighur identity and Islam.

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019/05/23/senate-moves-bill-forward-to-urge-sanctioning-china-for-muslim-concentration-camps/

ATruepatriot
05-23-2019, 11:41 AM
From that god awful NWO right side party against the very thing the left socialists are wishing for.