Lord Alton: Trade deals with China have become more important than Genocide

Lord Alton

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In advance of Monday's House of Commons forthcoming vote on the All Party House of Lords Genocide Amendment, Parliament was told that the Government is hiding behind the fiction of an imaginary judicial mechanism that will hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for its genocide of the Xinjiang Uyghurs. Last night, speaking to a Webinar organised by the Faiths United Youth Network David Alton said that trade deals had become more important than Genocide- "a word which dares not speak its name."

Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) told Parliament:

My Lords, will we be laying before the United Nations Security Council the 25,000-page report on the Uyghurs, published last week? It said that the Chinese Communist Party had breached every article of the 1948 convention on the crime of genocide. Or will we, as the House of Commons votes on the House of Lords genocide amendment next Monday, continue to shelter behind the fiction of an imaginary judicial mechanism capable of declaring a Uyghurs, genocide-a declaration that has been made by the Canadian and Dutch parliaments, the United States and elsewhere?

To read on see: www.davidalton.net/2021/03/19/in-advance-of-mondays-house-of-commons-forthcoming-vote-on-the-all-party-house-of-lords-genocide-amendment-parliament-was-told-that-the-government-is-hiding-behind-the-fiction-of-an-imaginary-judi/