OTTAWA — Members of Parliament have unanimously called on Ottawa to start a refugee program to resettle 10,000 Uyghurs fleeing persecution in China.
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MPs passed the motion unanimously Wednesday in the Commons. It earned 322 votes, including that of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Article content “This is a promise to the Canadian people, to the international community, that we will do this,” he told reporters, flanked by Uyghur advocates.Mehmet Tohti, head of the Ottawa-based Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, said the Uyghur diaspora in Canada is ready to help officials craft a plan and put it into action.Article content
“Doing advocacy against China is not easy, and many of our community members in Canada, Uyghur-Canadians, they sacrifice their family members just to speak up,” he told reporters.The UN Human Rights Office reported last August that China is committing “grave human rights violations” against Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region, and that some who fled to other countries have been “forcibly returned.
Thousands of Uyghurs have sought refuge in countries such as Turkey, where they face a risk of being sent back to China. The Commons had passed a motion in February 2021 that recognized China’s treatment of the Uyghur people as a genocide, though Trudeau’s cabinet abstained from the vote, saying more international investigations were needed.
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