China hits back at U.S. human rights bill, recalls America's 'history of blood and tears of Indians'
Beijing has back at the House of Representatives' passage of a bill criticizing China's treatment of its Uighur ethnic minority, recalling the United States' own history of systematic purges.
"The two-century long American history is tainted with the blood and tears of native Indians, who were originally master of the continent," Hua told reporters."However, starting from the 19th century, the U.S. Army occupied millions of square kilometers of land and grabbed countless natural resources by expelling and slaughtering native Indians through the Westward Expansion."
The establishment of the U.S. in 1776 and the militant expansionism that followed encouraged and later sponsored policies seeking the forced assimilation, migration or extermination of Native Americans. From as many as 15 million natives living in North America in the pre-Columbus era, only about 250,000 remained by the end of the so-called Indian Wars of the 19th century, according to the Library of Congress.The 2.
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