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CHINA’S GENOCIDE: POPE SILENT, PRELATES SPEAK

by Jules Gomes • ChurchMilitant.com • August 11, 2020

Cardinals condemn communist regime's holocaust of Uighur

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"ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis is being slammed for his silence on the genocide of Uighur Muslims after 76 religious leaders condemned China for a "holocaust" of its religious and ethnic minorities.

Two Asian cardinals, a British Catholic bishop and high-profile Catholic priests joined Orthodox, Anglican, Jewish and Muslim leaders in publishing a statement on Friday blasting China's persecution of Uighurs as "one of the most egregious human tragedies since the Holocaust."

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Chinese soldiers rounding up Uighur women

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar and president of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC) and Cdl. Ignatius Suharyo, archbishop of Jakarta, drew attention to "the potential genocide" of "one million Uighur and other Muslims in China."

The persecuted minority "are incarcerated in prison camps facing starvation, torture, murder, sexual violence, slave labor and forced organ extraction," and "at least 80% of Uighur women of childbearing age" are subjected to "forced sterilization and birth prevention," the statement said.

Global media and human rights activists noted the conspicuous silence of Pope Francis, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby — a close friend of the pontiff's — as well as prominent Muslim leaders.

"Pope Francis, in particular, speaks almost every week at the Sunday Angelus, and on many other occasions, about issues of injustice in the world. He has often addressed the persecution of the Rohingya Muslims," Rahima Mahmut, head of the World Uighur Congress, told Church Militant.

"Yet there is one country whose human rights record he has not highlighted — China — and one people whose suffering he has not spoken about — the Uighurs," the human rights activist lamented.

"The Pope is one of the world's most influential and respected spiritual leaders, with a moral authority that can reach every corner of the globe," Mahmut observed."