Tom Suozzi and Chris Smith, two US lawmakers, announced the formation of the Congressional Uyghur Caucus on Thursday, claiming that it will raise awareness of the Chinese Community Party’s (CCP) “systematic human rights crimes against the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.”
According to ANI, Representative Suozzi said, “Put simply, we’re talking about the Chinese Communist Party’s most orchestrated human rights abuse campaign of the twenty-first century.”
“We have a responsibility to uphold the ideals of fundamental human dignity and religious freedom abroad not only as Members of Congress, but as human beings,” the legislator was quoted as saying by the news agency.
“The Chinese Communist Party’s continued genocide and mass imprisonment of Uyghurs and other primarily Muslim ethnic minorities like the Kazakhs are heinous crimes,” Representative Chris Smith, added.
China has been calling the mass detention camps where Uyghur and other ethnic…