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 peo-
ple; 
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 offi-
cial 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 pre-
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serve the linguistic, cultural and religious traditions of 
the Uighur people; 
Whereas the U.S. House of Representatives has and con-
tinues to recognize that the authorities in the People’s 
Republic of China have manipulated the strategic objec-
tives of the international ‘‘war on terror’’ to increase 
their cultural and religious oppression of the Uighur peo-
ple; 
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 in-
vestigation 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 al-
legedly 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 pur-
sue 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 inter-
national 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 master-
mind 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 Gov-
ernment of the People’s Republic of China of peace-
ful 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 Re-
public of China to honor its Constitution’s guaran-
tees for freedoms of speech and association, distin-
guish between acts of peaceful protest and acts of vi-
olence, and not treat peaceful protest as a crime; 
(4) calls on the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China to allow access by diplomats and 
other international observers to the trials of people 
charged with protest-related crimes; 
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(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 per-
son 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 of-
fice and court handling each case, and the name of 
each facility where a person is detained or impris-
oned; 
(7) calls on the Government of the People’s Re-
public 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 Re-
public 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 inter-
national human rights nongovernmental organiza-
tions such as Amnesty International; 
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(9) calls on the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China to immediately end all violent repres-
sion 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. 
Æ 
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