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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 760 

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the atrocities perpetrated by the 

Government of the People’s Republic of China against Uyghurs, ethnic 

Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other Muslim minority groups in 

the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region constitutes genocide. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

OCTOBER 26 (legislative day, OCTOBER 19), 2020 

Mr. CORNYN (for himself, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. RISCH, Mr. 

MERKLEY, and Mr. CARDIN) submitted the following resolution; which 

was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the atrocities perpetrated by the Government of the People’s Republic 

of China against Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and 

members of other Muslim minority groups in the 

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region constitutes genocide. 

Whereas Article 2 of the 1948 United Nations Convention on 

the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which both the United States and the People’s Republic of China have ratified, defines genocide as ‘‘any of 

the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in 

whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious 

group, as such: (a) killing members of the group; (b) 


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causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the 

group; (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions 

of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction 

in whole or in part; (d) imposing measures intended to 

prevent births within the group; [or] forcibly transferring 

children of the group to another group.’’; 

Whereas the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention 

Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–441) states that it is the 

policy of the United States to ‘‘regard the prevention of 

atrocities as in its national interest’’; 

Whereas, since 2017, the Government of the People’s Republic of China has detained an estimated 1,800,000 Turkic 

Muslims, mostly Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and 

members of other Muslim minority groups, in internment 

camps without due process; 

Whereas detained Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and 

members of other Muslim minority groups are tortured, 

coerced to disavow their religious beliefs and cultural 

practices, compelled to work in forced labor programs, 

and, in some cases, raped, subjected to involuntary forced 

abortion, sterilization, and forced organ harvesting; 

Whereas, as a direct result of the Government of the People’s 

Republic of China’s targeted and coercive population control campaign against Uyghurs, the birthrate of the 

Uyghur population in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region plummeted by 24 percent from 2017 to 2018, with 

birthrates in the Uyghur majority regions of Hotan and 

Kashgar decreasing by more than 60 percent from 2015 

to 2018; 

Whereas sterilization rates in Xinjiang grew seven-fold from 

2016 to 2018 to more than 60,000 procedures; 


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Whereas, in 2018, 80 percent of all net added IUD placements in China (calculated as placements minus removals) were performed in Xinjiang, despite the fact that the 

region only makes up 1.8 percent of the nation’s population; 

Whereas nearly 500,000 Muslim children in Xinjiang have 

been forcibly separated from their families and subjected 

to indoctrination and inhumane and degrading treatment 

in state-run boarding schools; 

Whereas, since 2017, the Government of the People’s Republic of China has destroyed or damaged approximately 

16,000 mosques and over 30 percent of Islamic shrines, 

cemeteries, and pilgrimage routes across the Xinjiang 

Uyghur Autonomous Region; 

Whereas Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of 

other Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur 

Autonomous Region are subjected to constant, unwarranted, and intrusive mass surveillance through the use 

of new and emerging technologies, including facial recognition software, artificial intelligence, and genetic testing; 

Whereas, between 2017 and 2019, an estimated 80,000 

Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other 

Muslim minority groups were forcibly transferred out of 

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to work in factories 

across China, which raises serious concerns of forced 

labor being used in global supply chains; and 

Whereas the policies of the Government of the People’s Republic of China are in contravention of international 

human rights instruments signed by that government, including— 


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(1) the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 

the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 

which the People’s Republic of China has signed but not 

yet ratified; 

(2) the International Covenant on Economic, Social, 

and Cultural Rights, ratified by the People’s Republic of 

China in 2001; and 

(3) the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially 

Women and Children (Palermo Protocol), to which the 

People’s Republic of China has been a state party since 

February 2010: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) declares that the atrocities perpetrated by 

3 the Government of the People’s Republic of China 

4 against Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and mem5 bers of other Muslim minority groups in the 

6 Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region constitute 

7 genocide; 

8 (2) demands that the Government of the Peo9 ple’s Republic of China immediately— 

10 (A) adhere to its commitments under the 

11 1948 United Nations Convention on the Pre12 vention and Punishment of the Crime of Geno13 cide; 

14 (B) halt the genocide it is perpetrating 

15 against Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and 


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1 members of other Muslim minority groups in 

2 the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; 

3 (C) release individuals from internment 

4 camps, forced labor programs, and state-run 

5 boarding schools; 

6 (D) reunite families and rebuild or repair 

7 mosques; and 

8 (E) guarantee freedom of religion, includ9 ing Islam; 

10 (3) urges the Administration to take all appro11 priate measures, including working with like-minded 

12 states and multilateral coalitions, to compel, induce, 

13 or otherwise oblige the Government of the People’s 

14 Republic of China to immediately take the actions 

15 described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of para16 graph (2); 

17 (4) urges all national governments and inter18 national organizations, including the United Nations 

19 and its Office of the Secretary-General, to call the 

20 Government of the People’s Republic of China’s 

21 atrocity crimes by their rightful name: ‘‘genocide’’; 

22 (5) urges the Permanent Representative of the 

23 United States to the United Nations to take steps 

24 to coordinate with other members of the United Na25 tions to enact measures to prevent atrocity crimes by 


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1 the Government of the People’s Republic of China, 

2 and to punish those responsible for these ongoing 

3 crimes, including by the collection and preservation 

4 of evidence, imposing sanctions against perpetrators, 

5 and if necessary, the establishment and operation of 

6 appropriate tribunals; 

7 (6) urges member states of the United Nations 

8 to use their votes to bar the Government of the Peo9 ple’s Republic of China from membership of any 

10 United Nations councils or other component over11 seeing human rights until an independent commis12 sion established by the United Nations verifies that 

13 the People’s Republic of China has returned to ad14 hering to its commitments under the 1948 United 

15 Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punish16 ment of the Crime of Genocide; and 

17 (7) encourages the United States Government 

18 and United States companies to lead global coali19 tions ensuring businesses are not enabling, sup20 porting, or profiting off the mass surveillance and 

21 forced labor, which is a form of human trafficking, 

22 of Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members 

23 of other Muslim minority groups in China. 

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