The secretary of state posted a tweet on Twitter stating that China is responsible for crimes against humanity in the Muslim region of western China • "The ruling party should give the verdict," he wrote
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo // Photo: AFP
The Trump administration is sending a final blow to China in the last 24 hours of its rule.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted that he recognized China's Uighur minority as "crimes against humanity" and "genocide."
In a tweet, the Secretary of State wrote: "I have decided that the People's Republic of China is committing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang Province, targeting the Uyghur Muslim minority and members of other minority groups."
"These acts are an attack on the Chinese people and civilized nations everywhere. The Chinese government and the Communist Party that controls the country will pass judgment on the acts," Pompeo added.
The secretary of state referred to allegations that China is committing crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang region and the Uighur Muslim-Turkish minority.
These crimes include forcibly displacing civilians, forcibly employing them in cotton factories and plantations, and sending suspects in opposition to the regime or in religious extremism to "re-education camps" where they undergo indoctrination under conditions of incarceration.
Beijing confirms that it maintains an array of "professional training facilities" to which religious criminals or zealots are sent and that workers from Xinjiang are sent to work in factories in China.
However, the Chinese government claims that this is an effort to create integration between the residents of Xinjiang and the rest of China and part of the war on Islamic terrorism in the province.
