The Lithuanian Parliament, a European country, is scheduled to hold a hearing on Thursday (April 22) to push through a bill condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s genocide in Xinjiang. The Lithuanian parliament is the second parliament to join the ranks of those condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s genocide in Xinjiang, after the Canadian and Dutch parliaments.
Dovilė Šakalienė, a member of the Lithuanian Parliament, was the main driving force behind the bill, and as a result she was placed on China’s sanctions list, becoming the first Lithuanian political figure to be sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party on the Xinjiang issue.
On March 22, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced sanctions against 10 European politicians and four entities, accusing them of “maliciously spreading lies and false information” on the Xinjiang issue.
Sakaliane said that sanctions and threats are an old Communist trick, and she got it right! She told Lithuanian state media that she will not be intimidated and will meet with Taiwan’s representatives in the Baltic states next week to express her firm support for Taiwan’s position.
What the Chinese Communist Party has done to Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang has drawn sanctions from the United States, the European Union and other countries. Several countries and human rights groups believe that the CCP is committing genocide and cleansing in Xinjiang, including forced labor, forced abortions and sterilizations, and religious persecution.
In early March, a panel of independent U.N. experts declared that the Chinese government had violated all 50 articles of the Genocide Convention in Xinjiang and determined that it was “seeking the total destruction” of China’s Muslim community, adding that “This global power is the mastermind of this genocide.”
Beijing has insisted that Xinjiang is “a good example” of human rights progress and has invited some foreign diplomats to visit the region. However, the planned visit was frozen when EU ambassadors asked to meet with imprisoned Uighur activist and Sakharov Prize winner Ilham Tohti. “They asked to meet with a criminal convicted under Chinese law,” Zhang Ming, head of the Communist Party’s mission to the EU, said of the request at the time. “I’m sorry, but this is unacceptable.”
Sakaryane told Lithuanian state radio and television that international experts and relatives of imprisoned people will present information about the crackdown in Xinjiang at a special parliamentary hearing scheduled for April 22.
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