The #ICC said it can’t assert jurisdiction over China’s repression in #Xinjiang. https://t.co/kw2AQy9Qin

But facts are facts: China’s gov't has committed serious rights violations against the #Uyghurs on a 🚨massive 🚨scale.

A 🧵on @hrw findings so far & next steps.

In 2018, @wang_maya literally wrote👏 the👏 book👏on the Chinese govt's mass, systematic campaign of violations against Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. /2 https://t.co/t7nyX3x6QO
The Chinese govt's "Strike Hard" campaign has subjected ❇️ 1 million+❇️ Turkic Muslims to abuses like:

💠forced political indoctrination
💠collective punishment
💠restrictions on movement and communications
💠heightened religious restrictions
💠mass surveillance

/3
Not even kids are safe from this campaign’s cruelty.

Chinese authorities have kept countless children - whose parents are detained or in exile - in state-run child welfare institutions & boarding schools w/out parental consent or ⛔️access. More here: https://t.co/vVT6Xk4U7Y

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Last week, @wang_maya revealed a big data program for China’s policing in #Xinjiang that arbitrarily selects Turkic Muslims for possible detention. The government is using technology 💻 to “turbocharge” its repression of the #Uyghurs.

https://t.co/C8xouSEHD4

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The global🌐horror at Chinese govt repression is growing, as is the political cost for China. In October, 3⃣9⃣ countries publicly rebuked the widespread rights violations in Xinjiang, Hong Kong & Tibet,⬆️from 27 countries only a few months ago.

https://t.co/OAZa8q2pjx

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This followed the 🔥searing indictment🔥 of the Chinese govt's rights record by 5⃣0⃣(‼️) independent human rights experts that report to the UN Human Rights Council. They urged UN member countries to urgently create a mechanism to monitor abuses.

https://t.co/ZEkhjCYP2g

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What now? We need more countries to #StandwithUyghurs at the #UN, like 🇵🇹 @Portugal_MoFA, 🇨🇷@CRcancilleria, 🇷🇴@MAERomania, 🇨🇿@CzechMFA, 🇨🇾@CyprusMFA, 🇬🇹@MinexGt, 🇩🇴@MIREXRD & 🇲🇽@SRE_mx.

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And 🇫🇷 France @francediplo_EN could put @EmmanuelMacron's recent🗣️call for a #UN investigation of #Xinjiang repression into action by leading the charge in the #UN Human Rights Council...

https://t.co/6Owtq4fdmC

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...especially since @UNHumanRights Commissioner @mbachelet's 19+ months-old request to Beijing for unfettered access to #Xinjiang remains unanswered. https://t.co/chGKNnZeZc

A UN🇺🇳member state-backed investigation would make the Chinese govt's equivocation a lot harder.
None of this is easy. But @chiefrabbi framed the imperative to act on #Xinjiang so well:

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Though the task is great, none of us are free to desist from it. As Nelson Mandela himself said: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

https://t.co/8BSNlG7Fre

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