[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 624 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 624

  Condemning all violent repression by the Government of the People's 
             Republic of China of peaceful Uighur protests.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 10, 2009

Mr. Delahunt (for himself and Mr. Rohrabacher) submitted the following 
   resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Condemning all violent repression by the Government of the People's 
             Republic of China of peaceful Uighur protests.

Whereas the U.S. Department of State has recognized and documented the 
        Government of the People's Republic of China's repeated human rights 
        abuses of the Uighur people;
Whereas the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has recognized 
        and documented the Government of the People's Republic of China's 
        repeated human rights abuses of the Uighur people;
Whereas the People's Republic of China has initiated an official campaign to 
        encourage Han Chinese migration into the traditional Uighur homeland, 
        resulting in the Uighur population becoming a minority in East Tukestan 
        and has placed immense pressure on those who seek to preserve the 
        linguistic, cultural and religious traditions of the Uighur people;
Whereas the U.S. House of Representatives has and continues to recognize that 
        the authorities in the People's Republic of China have manipulated the 
        strategic objectives of the international ``war on terror'' to increase 
        their cultural and religious oppression of the Uighur people;
Whereas on June 25-26, 2009, in the Guandong Province in the People's Republic 
        of China, Uighurs residing in a toy factory dormitory were attacked by 
        ethnic Han Chinese;
Whereas the Guangdong incident allegedly resulted in 2 Uighur deaths and 118 
        injuries although other sources suggest a higher death toll;
Whereas in response to the Guangdong incident, Uighur men and women protested 
        peacefully to demand adequate investigation of the Guangdong incident;
Whereas the Government of the People's Republic of China, in response to the 
        Uighurs' peaceful protest, sent police and paramilitary forces in an 
        excessive, violent use of force;
Whereas the Government of the People's Republic of China's response to the 
        Uighur protests has so far resulted in allegedly 156 deaths and more 
        than 1,000 injuries;
Whereas the Government of the People's Republic of China has detained roughly 
        1,434 people and continues to pursue other alleged wrongdoers;
Whereas the Government of the People's Republic of China has taken steps to 
        control information about the incident by attempting to block unofficial 
        reports and discussions and has reportedly cut internet, cell phone, and 
        international telephone services in the region;
Whereas both the Han Chinese and Uighurs have suffered an unnecessary and 
        equally tragic loss of life;
Whereas the diaspora leader of the Uighur people, Rebiya Kadeer, has been 
        labeled by officials and the state-run media in the People's Republic of 
        China as the mastermind of the above said protests; and
Whereas Rebiya Kadeer supports democracy and a peaceful resolution of the 
        differences between the Uighur people and the People's Republic of 
        China: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) condemns all violent repression by the Government of 
        the People's Republic of China of peaceful Uighur protests;
            (2) expresses sadness at the loss of both Han Chinese and 
        Uighur life during the recent upheavals;
            (3) calls on the Government of the People's Republic of 
        China to honor its Constitution's guarantees for freedoms of 
        speech and association, distinguish between acts of peaceful 
        protest and acts of violence, and not treat peaceful protest as 
        a crime;
            (4) calls on the Government of the People's Republic of 
        China to allow access by diplomats and other international 
        observers to the trials of people charged with protest-related 
        crimes;
            (5) calls upon the Government of the People's Republic of 
        China to allow international observers and journalists 
        immediate and unfettered access where the protests took place;
            (6) calls upon the Government of the People's Republic of 
        China to provide details about each person detained or charged 
        with a crime, including each person's name, the charges (if 
        any) against each person, the name and location of the 
        prosecuting office and court handling each case, and the name 
        of each facility where a person is detained or imprisoned;
            (7) calls on the Government of the People's Republic of 
        China to release any innocent individuals involved in the 
        protest incidents and not seek the death penalty in those cases 
        in which individuals were peacefully lodging their dissent;
            (8) calls on the Government of the People's Republic of 
        China to immediately conduct an adequate, legitimate 
        investigation of the mob violence against the Uighurs occurring 
        in the Guangdong Province with the consultation and involvement 
        of international human rights nongovernmental organizations 
        such as Amnesty International;
            (9) calls on the Government of the People's Republic of 
        China to immediately end all violent repression of peaceful 
        Uighur protests;
            (10) calls on the Government of the People's Republic of 
        China to end its slander of Rebiya Kadeer; and
            (11) calls on the Government of the People's Republic of 
        China to end its human rights abuses and repression of the 
        Uighur people.
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