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The bill, the Uighur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act (UIGHUR Act), passed the House overwhelmingly on Tuesday by a vote of 407 to one.
By Catholic News Agency, EWTN News, 12/6/19
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House of Representatives this week passed legislation recognizing the mass detention of Uyghurs and other abuses committed by the Chinese government in the province of Xinjiang.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., who sponsored the House version of the legislation, said on the House floor on Tuesday that “millions of stories” are “waiting to be told about the crimes against humanity being committed by the Chinese government against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Turkic Muslims.”
“We cannot be silent. We must demand an end to these barbaric practices and accountability from the Chinese government. We must say “never again” to the cultural genocide and the atrocities suffered by Uyghurs and others in China,” Smith said.
The bill, the Uighur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act (UIGHUR Act), was sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. It passed the house overwhelmingly on Tuesday by a vote of 407 to one. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. was the lone vote in opposition. ….
