Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham) (Lab) [V]:...Such practices are part of a
systematic abuse of human rights aimed at millions of Uyghur
Muslims. Perhaps, legally, it still is not classified as genocide,
but the Uyghur people deserve a fair hearing. We must hear them. I
believe our courts must be empowered. If the very worst abuses are
going on, it is clear that our trade policy must change. We have
heard from holocaust survivors about the importance of that change,
and I believe it is about living up...Request free trial
(West Ham)
(Lab) [V]:...Such practices are part of a systematic abuse of human
rights aimed at millions of Uyghur Muslims. Perhaps, legally, it
still is not classified as genocide, but the Uyghur people deserve
a fair hearing. We must hear them. I believe our courts must be
empowered. If the very worst abuses are going on, it is clear that
our trade policy must change. We have heard from holocaust survivors about the
importance of that change, and I believe it is about living up to
our words when we say “never again”. Every year, we make that
commitment for holocaust Memorial
Day. I hope that on that day, next week, the UK can say
that it is acting decisively to give those words substance...
(Oxford West
and Abingdon) (LD) [V]:...This amendment is backed by the
International Bar Association, the Board of Deputies of
British Jews, the Muslim Council of Britain and many
others, and it has support on both sides of the House. Never again
should we wring our hands in horror after the fact, saying we
should and could have done more. “Never again”—words we use
every holocaust Remembrance
Day, and words that we today have a chance to live up
to...
(Wealden)
(Con):...Let us remember that we are talking about genocide:
the systematic destruction of an entire people. It is a threshold
that is so hard to reach because it is the most heinous of all
crimes—the forced sterilisation of women, forced labour and
re-education camps for hundreds of thousands of children. The
Board of Deputies of British Jews stated that it
is reminded of the holocaust when it thinks of the
plight of the Uyghurs; it cannot get any worse than that...
(Aberavon) (Lab):...The term “genocide” evokes harrowing
memories of Bosnia, Rwanda, Cambodia and, of course, the
holocaust If ever there is a time
for Britain to show global leadership and stand up for our values,
it is at the very moment when we witness those early, chilling
signs of genocide. On that note, the nation was collectively aghast
when we saw Andrew Marr show the Chinese ambassador a video of
shaven-headed Uyghur Muslims being forcibly loaded on to trains,
the video accompanied by moving accounts of women being sterilised
and the horrors of forced labour camps. The Jewish
community knows all too well that comparisons with the
holocaust should be used
sparingly, so when the President of the Board of Deputies
of British Jews writes to the Prime Minister to draw
parallels between events in Xinjiang and Nazi Germany and then
calls for the Prime Minister to support the Alton amendment, the
Government must surely take note...
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