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加拿大参议院否决关于新疆种族灭绝的议案
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别说这杂种是华裔。
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Senators declined to label China's treatment of its Muslim minority Uyghur population as a genocide Tuesday evening.
A motion brought forward by Sen. Leo Housakos called on the Senate to recognize that a genocide is currently being carried out against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims.
Twenty-nine senators voted in favour of the motion, 33 senators voted against and 13 abstained.
The motion also called upon the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Olympic Games out of China should the Chinese government continue to perpetrate a "genocide."
The vote in the Senate follows on a similar vote in the House in February which saw a substantial majority of MPs — including most of the Liberals who participated — vote in favour of labelling China's treatment of the Uyghurs as genocide.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and almost all of his cabinet colleagues were absent for that vote. Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau was the only cabinet minister present. He abstained when it was his turn to vote, saying he did so "on behalf of the government of Canada."
Trudeau and his government have been reluctant to use the word genocide to describe China's treatment of the Uyghurs, arguing that more evidence from independent investigations is needed.
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During debate on the motion, Independent Senators Group Leader Sen. Yuen Pau Woo said Canada should avoid criticizing China over its treatment of Uyghur Muslims because our country has mistreated Indigenous peoples.
Echoing an argument made by Chinese officials at the UN last week, Woo said China's policy toward the Muslim minority in Xinjiang province is similar to the colonialism directed at Indigenous peoples in this country, and that condemning Beijing in harsh terms would be hypocritical and "simply an exercise in labelling."
Independent B.C. Sen. Yuen Pau Woo has criticized Canada for condemning China's treatment of its Uyghur minority. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)
Sen. Peter Boehm, who chairs the Senate foreign affairs committee, also opposed the motion, but for different reasons than those articulated by Woo.
Boehm argued that the House vote which labelled China's treatment of its Uyghur population a genocide had "no discernible impact" and that he believes strongly that foreign policy actions fall under the purview of the executive branch of government — the prime minister and cabinet.
"The complexities of a bilateral relationship that is fraught, as is the case between China and Canada today, cannot be boiled down into a few paragraphs of what passes for megaphone parliamentary diplomacy by copying a motion from the other place [House] of almost four months ago that had no discernible impact other than to spark an angry reaction from the Chinese government, which passage of this motion will probably do as well," said Boehm.
"Effective diplomacy must weigh words carefully, and parliamentary diplomacy or motions in this chamber, as I see them, should be no different. Foreign policy is not binary. It is all about the shades of grey. This motion, in my view, will not advance the importance of addressing the situation in western China, nor will it contribute to resolving or alleviating an already fraught and complex relationship that we now have."
Housakos said it was not about compelling China to do one thing or another.
"The people of Xinjiang and the Uyghur people require solidarity, like our allies around the world have expressed that solidarity — the Senate of the United States, the House of Commons of the U.K., the Parliament of Australia — and we should follow suit as a strong democracy and stand up in support of that solidarity," said Housakos during debate.
Sen. Leo Housakos has said Canada 'should follow suit' with other Western democracies in condemning China's actions. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
"The authoritarian state of China is committing these atrocities, these crimes against humanity, with impunity. They're arrogant in their blatant disregard for human life and human rights, and we must not allow it to go unchecked and unnamed for what it is."
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An independent legal analysis released earlier this year by the Montreal-based Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and a Washington-based think-tank concluded that China is committing an ongoing genocide against its Muslim minority population in Xinjiang.
The report concluded that the Chinese government's actions in Xinjiang have violated every single act prohibited by the United Nations Genocide Convention.
A number of Canadian human rights experts contributed to the report, including former cabinet ministers Lloyd Axworthy, Allan Rock and Irwin Cotler, as well as former ambassador to the UN Yves Fortier.
Following the release of this report, retired lieutenant general Roméo Dallaire, who previously served as a senator, urged Ottawa in March to act in response to the "genocide" being committed by the Chinese government.
Dallaire led the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide there.
With files from John Paul Tasker and Ryan Patrick Jones
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华裔参议员发表挺中言论 加国华人批他连累华人(图)
新闻来源: 自由亚洲电台 于2021-06-30 14:34:04 大字阅读 提示:新闻观点不代表本网立场胡元豹在参议院称加拿大不该批评中国对待维吾尔人的方式，因为加拿大也虐待原住民。加拿大华裔参议员胡元豹（Yuen Pau Woo）指加拿大应该避免批评中国侵犯新疆维吾尔穆斯林的人权，因为加拿大本身就曾虐待原住民。言论一出，引发舆论哗然。有评论家批胡元豹竟然连加拿大价值观都能舍弃；还有评论称胡元豹之举，只会让更多华裔被贴标签而遭歧视。
28日加拿大参议院讨论关於“中国正在对维吾尔人和其他穆斯林进行种族灭绝”的一项动议案，华裔参议员胡元豹（Yuen Pau Woo）在参议院发表演讲称，指责中国大规模逮捕维吾尔人丶强迫穆斯林妇女绝育并强迫他们搬离家园，这些事情加拿大都做过，如此谴责中国是虚伪的，只是简单地贴标签而已。 “加拿大做了所有这些，在我们这样一个只有短暂历史的国家几乎都做了这些事情，不仅对原住民做出骇人听闻的行为，对不受欢迎丶不值得信任的新移民和少数群体也是。”
胡元豹认为这种议案将不必要地让中国难堪，或者暗示加拿大在道德上更加优越。
这项谴责中国的动议案是由参议员郝撒科斯(Leo Housakos)提出，他在参议院上表示，当加拿大一直在为历史错误反省补偿，但若对现在太平洋另一端正在发生的悲剧视若无睹，等於没有从错误中成长。
28日加拿大参议院讨论关於“中国正在对维吾尔人和其他穆斯林进行种族灭绝”的一项动议案，这项谴责中国的动议案是由参议员郝撒科斯Leo Housakos（图）提出。（路透社）
