Am I right?’ Canadians — not Uighurs — a persecuted people, China corrects UN envoy Bob Rae
China was responding to Canada’s UN ambassador asking its human rights council to investigate the treatment of the Muslim minority
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Nov 16, 2020
OTTAWA — The Chinese government is firing back at Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations for calling on the UN to investigate whether China’s persecution of ethnic Muslim Uighurs in its Xinjiang province is a genocide.
During a news conference Monday in Beijing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian described Bob Rae’s comments as “ridiculous,” adding that Canada itself better fits the description of having perpetrated a genocide.