U.S. raps China's Uyghur abuse as "genocide" in human rights report

The United States on Tuesday condemned the "genocide" that has occurred against the Muslim Uyghur minorities in China in an annual human rights report issued for the first time under the administration of President Joe Biden.The abusive treatment of ethnic and religious minority groups in China's far western Xinjiang region includes the arbitrary imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberties of more than 1 million civilians, forced sterilization, coerced abortion, rape and forced labor, the 2020 report said.Under a U.N. convention, genocide includes actions such as killing …READ FULL ARTICLE