Richard Gere testified before Congress to condemn what he called China's 'genocide,' 'crimes against humanity' and 'longstanding brutality.'
reported on Thursday, largely focused on advocating for lawmakers to reintroduce a bill known as the Promoting a Resolution to the Tibet-China Conflict Act, or the Resolve Tibet Act , that would demand the Chinese Communist Party accept negotiations with the head of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama.Tibet in 1951 and has been implementing policies to subjugate the indigenous population for decades.
East Turkestian, which China refers to as the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” is home to an ongoing genocide of Uyghurs and other Turkic, Muslim-majority ethnic groups at the hand of the Communist Party. Gere accused China of “acts of genocide” against the Tibetans as well as modern actions that “match the definition of crimes against humanity.” Among them, he noted, was the mass shipment of children to “boarding schools” to be taught Mandarin and indoctrinated into communism.
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