AFP | | Posted by Shobhit Gupta
President Joe Biden expressed “solidarity” Thursday with China’s embattled Uyghur minority in a message to Muslims all over the world as they have fun the holy month of Ramadan.
“Along with our companions, the USA stands in solidarity with Muslims who proceed to face oppression, together with Uyghurs within the Individuals’s Republic of China, Rohingya in Burma, and different Muslim communities going through persecution all over the world,” Biden mentioned in an announcement.
“Throughout this sacred time of reflection, the USA additionally reaffirms our assist to Muslim communities struggling hardships and devastation,” Biden mentioned, referring to earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria, and flood victims in Pakistan.
“Immediately particularly, we bear in mind the common human proper to observe, pray, and preach our faiths peacefully and overtly.”
Biden’s highlighting of the Uyghurs — who the US authorities says are being subjected to genocide by the Chinese language communist authorities — got here at a time of robust rigidity between Washington and Beijing.
In accordance with rights teams, Uyghurs are subjected to mass incarceration in pressured labor camps and banned from expressing their tradition. Beijing says the ethnic minority will not be being repressed and that any safety measures of their northwestern area of Xinjiang are a response to a terrorism risk.