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23rd April 2021
12:47pm BST

Following a vote in the Commons yesterday, the UK government has officially condemned the acts as genocide and look set to ramp up pressure on China through the United Nations (UN). They will join both Canadian and Dutch parliaments in ruling the ongoing situation as genocide.
It is believed that as far back as 2018, if not even earlier, UN human rights committees had received "credible reports the Chinese were holding up to a million people in 'counter-extremism centres' in Xinjiang". Since then, images and insider footage has confirmed that Uighurs are being detained in a possible 380 internment camps.
While the state has labelled these "re-education camps" - the Uighurs being a traditionally Muslim people and Turkish-speaking - the induction is clearly against their will and the allegations are that there are more than a million men and women have been forced into an "oppressive system of mass surveillance, detention, indoctrination, and even forced sterilisation".
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