And this time not exclusively the unborn kind. Namely they’re murdering Uighur babies.
Hospitals in Xinjiang aborted late-stage pregnancies and killed newborns as part of China’s mission to erase Uighur culture, a doctor who worked in the region told Radio Free Asia on Monday.
Since 2016, China has interned at least 1 million Uighurs in hundreds of prison camps, which it euphemistically calls “reeducation centers,” where Uighurs are forced to abandon their heritage and religion.
A large part of this crackdown involves limiting Uighurs’ reproductive rights and slashing the birth rate.
Snip.
Hasiyet Abdulla, a Uighur doctor who spent 15 years working in hospitals in Xinjiang and now lives in Turkey, told RFA that when a child was expected to be born into a family who already had two or three children or who’d had a child in the past three years, the pregnancy would be terminated, even at “eight and nine months.”
Sometimes medical staff members would “even kill the babies after they’d been born,” Abdulla said.
“They wouldn’t give the baby to the parents — they kill the babies when they’re born,” she said, adding: “It’s an order that’s been given from above, it’s an order that’s been printed and distributed in official documents. Hospitals get fined if they don’t comply, so of course they carry this out.”
This seems like it should be bigger news than it is.
Communist China is literally killing babies because they’re the wrong race, which is both evil and a violation of Article II of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide:
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Literally killing babies.
Literally committing genocide.
Can we all agree that this is evil?
Can someone ask Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to condemn China over this atrocity?
(Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Tags: China, Communism, Crime, Foreign Policy, genocide, Uighers
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