More than 100 UK lawmakers condemn China over Uighurs abuse

 More than 100 British lawmakers have signed a letter to Chinese ambassador condemning what y described as “a systematic and calculated programme of ethnic cleansing against Uighur people” in China’s far western Xinjiang region.

“When world is presented with such overwhelming evidence of gross human rights abuses, body can turn a blind eye,” read cross-party letter, which was signed by 130 lawmakers Wednesday. “We as Parliamentarians in United Kingdom write to express our absolute condemnation of this oppression and call for it to end immediately.”

letter referred to reports of forced population control and mass detention of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, as well as video apparently showing a large number of blindfolded and shaven men waiting to be loaded onto trains. lawmakers said video – which was recently shown to Chinese Ambassador Liu Xiaoming during a BBC interview – bore “chilling” similarities to foot of Nazi concentration camps.

Chinese officials have repeatedly derided allegations of gecide, forced sterilization and mass detention of nearly 1 million Uighurs in Xinjiang as lies fabricated by anti-China forces. y maintain that Uighurs are treated equally and that Chinese government always protects legitimate rights of ethnic mirities.