IV 

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. 

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 

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 

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serve 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 


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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 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) condemns all violent repression by the Gov3 ernment of the People’s Republic of China of peace4 ful Uighur protests; 

5 (2) expresses sadness at the loss of both Han 

6 Chinese and Uighur life during the recent upheavals; 

7 (3) calls on the Government of the People’s Re8 public of China to honor its Constitution’s guaran9 tees for freedoms of speech and association, distin10 guish between acts of peaceful protest and acts of vi11 olence, and not treat peaceful protest as a crime; 

12 (4) calls on the Government of the People’s Re13 public of China to allow access by diplomats and 

14 other international observers to the trials of people 

15 charged with protest-related crimes; 


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1 (5) calls upon the Government of the People’s 

2 Republic of China to allow international observers 

3 and journalists immediate and unfettered access 

4 where the protests took place; 

5 (6) calls upon the Government of the People’s 

6 Republic of China to provide details about each per7 son detained or charged with a crime, including each 

8 person’s name, the charges (if any) against each 

9 person, the name and location of the prosecuting of10 fice and court handling each case, and the name of 

11 each facility where a person is detained or impris12 oned; 

13 (7) calls on the Government of the People’s Re14 public of China to release any innocent individuals 

15 involved in the protest incidents and not seek the 

16 death penalty in those cases in which individuals 

17 were peacefully lodging their dissent; 

18 (8) calls on the Government of the People’s Re19 public of China to immediately conduct an adequate, 

20 legitimate investigation of the mob violence against 

21 the Uighurs occurring in the Guangdong Province 

22 with the consultation and involvement of inter23 national human rights nongovernmental organiza24 tions such as Amnesty International; 


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1 (9) calls on the Government of the People’s Re2 public of China to immediately end all violent repres3 sion of peaceful Uighur protests; 

4 (10) calls on the Government of the People’s 

5 Republic of China to end its slander of Rebiya 

6 Kadeer; and 

7 (11) calls on the Government of the People’s 

8 Republic of China to end its human rights abuses 

9 and repression of the Uighur people. 

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