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US to block some exports from Xinjiang over alleged rights abuses
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IANS | 15 Sep, 2020
The US will block some exports from China's Xinjiang region, over
alleged human rights abuses against the Muslim Uighur minority, the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced.
The orders
announced on Monday that "forced labour" was used to make the products,
including at a "vocational" centre it called a "concentration camp",
reports the BBC.
The export ban includes garments, cotton,
computer parts and hair products from five entities in Xinjiang as well
as Anhui province.
The orders target four companies and one manufacturing site and fall short of the region-wide ban the Department had considered.
"These
extraordinary human rights violations demand an extraordinary
response... This is modern-day slavery," the BBC quoted Kenneth
Cuccinelli, the DHS's Acting Secretary, as saying to the media on
Monday.
"Because of its unique nature, being, applying to a
region as opposed to a company or a facility, we are giving that more
legal analysis.
"We want to make sure that once we proceed that it will stick, so to speak," he added.
Responding
to the development, Mark A. Morgan, Acting Commissioner of US Customers
and Border Protection agency, said that the orders "send a clear
message to the international community that we will not tolerate the
illicit, inhumane, and exploitative practices of forced labour in US
supply chains".
The move is the latest by President Donald
Trump's administration to put pressure on China over the situation in
Xinjiang, the BBC reported.
Uighurs, who are mostly Muslim, are ethnically Turkic and make up about 45 per cent of Xinjiang's population.
Earlier
this year, a report by China scholar Adrian Zenz found that the Asian
giant was forcing women in the region to be sterilised or fitted with
contraceptive devices.
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