China is global hotspot for goods made by forced, child labour, says US Labor Dept report

US Department of Labor in a report released on Wednesday said that China is leading global hotspot for goods' manufacturing by forced labour and abusive child labour. US Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia in a statement said that list illustrates "Beijing's disturbing role - world's second-largest ecomy- in sponsoring se exploitative practices." "Forced labour and abusive child labour are dehumanizing, ruining lives and families," he added. list for se goods is part of a broader US government's effort to address forced labour in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Automous Region, where more than one million Uighurs and or ethnic and religious mirities have been detained, US Labor Department said.

'Child labour is dehumanizing'

"Estimates range from at least 100,000 to possibly hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and or ethnic and religious mirities in China who may be working in conditions of forced labour following detention in Chinese Communist Party re-education camps," release furr stated.  Labor Department has in past highlighted its growing concern over Uighurs' treatment in Xinjiang. 

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Last week, New York Times had reported that China while continuing its attempt to wipe out  Uyghur ethnic community, in recent years have closed and demolished many places of worship. Several major shrines, mosques and or holy structures across Xinjiang that have long preserved culture and Islamic beliefs of region’s Muslims w stand as rubbles. Citing a report by Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), New York Times reported that around 8,500 mosques across Xinjiang have been completely demolished since 2017 - more than a third of number of mosques government says are in region.

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Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking mirity from Central Asia, are a distinct ethnic group from Han Chinese, with Urumqi being closer to Kabul than Beijing. In 2009, most infamous riots broke out in streets of Urumqi, Xinjiang which pitted Uyghur Muslims against Han Chinese.  CCP government has turned entire region into a highly controlled, open-air prison after Urumqi riots in 2009. CCP has turned region into a "brutal totalitarian police state" and everything unique about Uyghurs is "systematically targeted". re have been growing calls for action against Chinese officials involved in human rights violations in Xinjiang. US had recently imposed sanctions and visa restrictions against senior officials over human rights violations in Xinjiang. (With ANI inputs)

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