Canadian Parliament declares crimes against Uighurs by the Chinese Communist Party as genocide


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Jose Hermosa | TheBL 02/24/21, 07:59 Uighur activists protest in Vancouver, Canada, in January 2020. (Screenshot/@Rene_Cassin/Twitter) Following a unanimous vote, the Canadian Parliament became the second country to declare that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is committing genocide against the millions of people who make up the Uighur Muslim ethnic group residing in China. The first was the United States. “I have looked at all the evidence and there is no doubt in my mind that there are, in fact, mass atrocities that are constitutive of acts of genocide under the [U.N.] Genocide Convention,” said Irwin Cotler, a former Liberal...