Why the West won’t act on China’s Uighur crisis

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''Irwin, of World Uyghur Congress, compares Europe’s response over the Uighur issue to its vocal criticism of the Myanmar government, which now faces European sanctions over its maltreatment of its Muslim Rohingya population. Some in the international community have described Myanmar’s brutal clearance operations that have driven over 700,000 Rohingya over the border into Bangladesh as a “genocide.” Now, some are starting to refer to what is happening in Xinjiang as the beginning of a genocide...''

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David Hutt

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Asia Times

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2019-01-19

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2019-01-19

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Myanmar

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English

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text

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