China Committing Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, State Department Says

0 Share: Outgoing secretary of state Mike Pompeo made the determination Wednesday that China is committing genocide and crimes against humanity because of its systematic oppression of its Uighur population. The State Department says the Chinese government has systematically imprisoned, oppressed, and committed genocide against the Uighur population, an ethnic minority group that has been forced into labor camps in the country's Xinjiang province. Humanitarian organizations have provided evidence that China forcefully sterilizes the population and abducts children born to Uighur families. "Beijing's atrocities in Xinjiang represent an extreme affront to the Uyghurs, the people of China, and civilized people…