Canada’s parliament says China has committed genocide against Muslim minorities

Canada’s parliament says China has committed genocide against Muslim minorities

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Although Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet did not recall Monday’s vote, a majority of lawmakers – including many Liberals who took part – voted in favor of the motion, which was approved by the opposition Conservative party. was brought.

The motion, which acknowledges ‘that a genocide is currently being carried out by the People’s Republic of China against Uighurs and other Turkish Muslims’, also calls on the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing.

Canada’s Secretary of State Marc Garneau was the only cabinet minister to attend the vote in parliament, and officially abstained ‘on behalf of the Government of Canada’.

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Opposition leader Erin O’Toole, who led the parliamentary vote, called on the Trudeau government to support the determination, although it would not symbolically become government policy. “It is shameful that Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government continue to refuse to call the horrific actions by the Chinese Communist Party: a genocide,” O’Toole said Monday.

The parliamentary vote also makes Canada the first country to semi-officially call for Beijing to be stripped of the 2022 Winter Olympics over allegations of human rights violations. More than 100 human rights organizations have banded together to plead for a political boycott of the upcoming Games to be held in February next year.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a news conference on Tuesday that Canada should stop politicizing the 2022 Beijing Games, saying it was undermining “the interests of the international Olympic movement and athletes from all countries.”

Calls for international inquiry

The adoption of the motion comes just over a month after the U.S. government made the same decision, with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announcing that the world had witnessed the ‘systematic attempt by Uyghurs through the Destroy Chinese party state ‘.

The Chinese government has repeatedly denied allegations of human rights abuses against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang said on Tuesday that China “strongly condemns and strongly opposes the Canadian parliament’s motion”, adding that it has made representations to Ottawa.

“The facts prove that there has never been a genocide in Xinjiang,” he said.

In a statement released after the vote on Monday, Canadian Foreign Minister Garneau said Trudeau’s government believed the allegations against China should be investigated by international experts.

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“The Government of Canada takes all allegations of genocide very seriously. We have a responsibility to work with others in the international community to ensure that such allegations are investigated by an independent international body of legal experts,” Garneau said in a statement released Monday. and adds that a “credible inquiry” must be launched by an international and independent body.

Garneau’s statement comes on the same day that Foreign Minister Dominic Raab called on China to give the United Nations ‘urgent and unbound’ access to Xinjiang so that allegations of human rights violations can be investigated independently.

“The situation in Xinjiang is beyond bleak. The reported abuse – which includes torture, forced labor and forced sterilization of women – is extreme and it is widespread,” Raab said during a speech to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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