Mitt Romney says treatment of ethnic minorities in China ‘sickening’


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SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Mitt Romney called video of what appears to be Chinese police loading blindfolded ethnic Uighurs onto trains in northwest China “absolutely sickening.” “Uyghurs being bound and blindfolded, loaded onto a train headed for modern day concentration camps. Absolutely sickening. The U.S. must partner with our allies to put a stop to the human rights atrocities being committed by the Chinese Communist Party,” the Utah Republican tweeted Friday along with the short video. The footage purportedly shows dozens of blindfolded Uighur men with their heads freshly shaved and their hands tied behind their backs during a...