[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 213 (Thursday, December 9, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H7618]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES BY CHINA

  (Mr. BOWMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOWMAN. Madam Speaker, we know that about 1.5 million Uyghur and 
Kazakh Muslims have been detained in reeducation camps and that 
products made in the Xinjiang region have been made with forced labor--
in other words, slavery.
  The House considered the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, led by 
Chairman McGovern, that would ban the import of goods made with forced 
labor and sanction people responsible for modern-day slavery.
  This is ethnic cleansing happening here. The world cannot look away 
from one of the most egregious and deadly incidents of ongoing 
Islamophobia, genocide, and slavery.
  I was proud to vote ``yes'' on this legislation and hope to ensure 
that we hold China accountable for this egregious human rights abuse.

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