WASHINGTON —US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Tuesday with Uighurs who survived internment camps in China’s Xinjiang region, in a bid to promote human rights and highlight Beijing’s “genocide” against the Muslim minority group.
America’s top diplomat met with seven survivors, advocates and relatives of people still detained in Xinjiang, State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a readout of the roundtable meeting.
The purpose was to help show US commitment to “calling for an end to the People’s Republic of China’s ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide against Uighurs and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang,” Price said.
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