China rejects US lawmakers' sanctions call over Muslim camps

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press



By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
Today

BEIJING (AP) — China said Thursday that U.S. lawmakers were wasting taxpayer money by urging President Donald Trump’s administration to impose sanctions on Chinese officials allegedly tied to the mass internment of ethnic minority Muslims in camps in the far west.

The lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin urging the government to apply sanctions to address the “ongoing human rights crisis” in the region of Xinjiang (SHIN’-jhang), in the latest sign that the detentions are raising concerns among Western leaders and governments.

Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang are being detained and tortured and face “egregious restrictions on religious practice and culture” and other abuses, said the letter, which was signed by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith and 15 others. It was provided to the media on Wednesday.

The letter singles out Xinjiang’s top official, Chen Quanguo, accused by many of turning the region into a police surveillance state and implementing a system of internment camps, also known as “re-education centers,” where members of the Uighur (’WEE-gur) and other Muslim minorities are locked up for months without trial.

Read more: https://apnews.com/22e2fb42383a401ab9a401aa69f79257/US-lawmakers-call-for-China-sanctions-over-Muslim-camps

[PatSeg]

1. The U.S. outraged over internment camps?

Oh that is rich coming from the country who is separating children from their parents and putting them in detention centers.

[Johnyawl]

2. "... locked up for months without trial.

Sounds like Gitmo.

[The Liberal Lion]

3. My mama taught me as a child

When you point the finger at someone make sure to take notice of the three fingers pointing right back at you. That being said the repression of Muslims in China is a disgrace, it as as disgraceful as gitmo, America's torture program trump's immigrant concentration camps.