{"id":4776,"date":"2022-01-22T22:25:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T22:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2022\/01\/22\/rebiya-kadeer-i-thank-french-parliament-officials-recognizing-violence-against-uyghurs\/"},"modified":"2022-01-22T22:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T22:25:18","slug":"rebiya-kadeer-i-thank-french-parliament-officials-recognizing-violence-against-uyghurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/rebiya-kadeer-i-thank-french-parliament-officials-recognizing-violence-against-uyghurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebiya Kadeer: I thank French Parliament officials for recognizing the violence against the Uyghurs as genocide!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Although France is geographically far away, the nation has always been close to the Uyghur people&#8217;s hearts, with its glorious history of being a banner of freedom and justice . Thus, when our people sought help from the international community, the French were among the first to help[.2] . Yesterday, the French Parliament, with a majority vote, acknowledged the brutality perpetrated by China against the Uyghurs as genocide. By doing so, France, to a great extent, justified and exhorted the hopes of our people, and on behalf of our people at home and abroad, I thank the French people and their parliament.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The decision, of course, gives hope and spiritual strength to our people who have been displaced during the four years of mass detention, leaving hundreds of thousands&nbsp; of bodies per day in camps. Equally important, France&#8217;s decision denounces China, which over-trusted their economic power and wanted to shut the mouths of the entire international community. Furthermore, France&#8217;s proclamation also serves as an exemplary lesson to countries that stay with China for economic interests and the companies and celebrities who worship their money in China, while turning a blind eye to the Uyghur genocide .<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>For France, as the world&#8217;s seventh largest economy, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and European Union founder, much more can be accomplished to stop this crime against humanity in the twenty-first century. France, which served a leading role in ousting Dictator Gaddafi in the Arab Spring movement, has the power to play a vital role in stopping the Uyghur genocide.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>I wish peace and strength to the French people who supported us in our darkest days. Finally, on behalf of our people, I would like to thank all our activists, camp witnesses, researchers, and journalists who have contributed to this decision.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Sincerely, Rabiye Qadir, Leader of the Uyghur National Movement<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>January 20th, 20222<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Although France is geographically far away, the nation has always been close to the Uyghur people&#8217;s hearts, with its glorious history of being a banner of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-4776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4776"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}