Resolution in Support of Including a Statement in the Platform of the Democratic Party Condemning the Chinese Government’s Policy of Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang

May 27, 2020 | Washtenaw County Democratic Party

WHEREAS since 2016 the Chinese government has “partly or completely demolished” numerous mosques and other Muslim religious sites in Xinjiang Province, as documented by satellite imagery (see “Revealed: new evidence of China’s mission to raze the mosques of Xinjiang” (May 6, 2019), The Guardian, accessed at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/07/revealed-newevidence-of-chinas-mission-to-raze-the-mosques-of-xinjiang;“UHRP REPORT: Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines” (October 28, 2019), Uyghur Human Rights Project, accessed at https://uhrp.org/press-release/demolishing-faithdestruction-and-desecration-uyghur-mosques-and-shrines.html);

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