(AFP - The Guardian) Move shows ‘what is happening to the Uyghurs is unacceptable’, says MP
after non-binding parliamentary ballot with prime minister’s support -- Canada’s parliament has unanimously passed a
motion to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees who fled China, but are now
facing pressure to return.The vote on Wednesday builds on a February 2021 move by Canadian lawmakers to label Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in its north-western Xinjiang territory as genocide. Rights
groups believe at least 1 million Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim
minorities have been incarcerated in internment camps in the region,
where China is also accused of forcibly sterilising women and imposing forced labour. (...)
