Party drops plan for formal recognition laid out last year by David Lammy, who will visit Beijing on Friday
  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
    122·
    2 months ago

    If the UK were to punish China over its treatment of Uyghur Muslims, they’d have to contend with

    1. Most of China’s policies regarding Muslims in the region are in practice more permissive than the UK’s, which would open the UK up to legal cases against its treatment of refugees, immigrants, and Muslims in general.

    2. There is blatantly more evidence of a genocide going on with active UK participation through daily RAF flights over Lebanon and Gaza, which would open them up to domestic rulings against weapons transfers to Israel.

  • BrikoXMEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Of course they backtracked. Imagine the hypocrisy of condemning China when they happily finance Israel doing genocide on even bigger scale.

    • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      62·
      2 months ago

      Having spent some time in Xinjiang and spoken to many uyghurs and experienced a lot of Uyghur culture I have to object to the term bigger scale, because that implies there is any genocide going on whatsoever

      • BrikoXMEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I based my wording on Human Rights Watch report and in context of the article.

        The specific crimes against humanity might not constitute genocide if brought to ICJ as UN report stopped short of calling it genocide.