On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made it clear that the Chinese Communist Party’s oppression of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang is nothing short of genocide and reaches the same level as the Nazi genocide of Jews and others in the Holocaust. Pompeo condemned the genocide in no uncertain terms, perhaps in order to prevent incoming President Joe Biden from going soft on China’s oppression.

“Since the Allied forces exposed the horrors of Nazi concentration camps, the refrain ‘Never again’ has become the civilized world’s rallying cry against these horrors. Just because an atrocity is perpetrated in a manner that is different than what we have observed in the past, does not make it any less an atrocity,” Pompeo wrote.

The secretary of State released two determinations, both extremely damning.

“I have determined that since at least March 2017, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), under the direction and control of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has committed crimes against humanity against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other members of ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang,” he declared.

“These crimes are ongoing and include: the arbitrary imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty of more than one million civilians, forced sterilization, torture of a large number of those arbitrarily detained, forced labor, and the imposition of draconian restrictions on freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression, and freedom of movement,” Pompeo explained.

“The Nuremberg Tribunals at the end of World War II prosecuted perpetrators for crimes against humanity, the same crimes being perpetrated in Xinjiang,” he added, for emphasis.

The secretary then added that “after careful examination of the available facts,” he determined that the Chinese Communist Party “has committed genocide against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang. I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state.”

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