Trudeau responds to China's treatment of Uighur people as 'genocide'.
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
86.247086
Summary
Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau is the Prime Minister of Canada and a leading voice against China's treatment of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, a group of Muslim-Christian minority people. He is also the head of the Asian Society for Human Rights and International Development (ASHRID).
Transcript
00:00:00.240
Today you took an emotional tour of Cambodia's genocide museum. Tomorrow you're going to be at
00:00:05.040
the G20 with China. The Canadian Parliament has already called China's treatment of the Uyghurs
00:00:17.280
As I've seen when I visited the Shoah Memorial, the Holocaust Memorial in Israel,
00:00:27.120
as I've seen as I visited the Holocaust Memorial, the genocide memorial in Rwanda,
00:00:38.800
as I saw today visiting and seeing the history of the genocide that happened here in Cambodia,
00:00:48.960
the word genocide, acts of genocide are things to be taken incredibly seriously as a world. We have
00:01:06.320
objective historical expert processes to put in place those words and those designations.
00:01:19.360
We continue to call out vicious human rights abuses around the world, including
00:01:25.840
against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang by the Chinese government.
00:01:29.600
The designations of genocide need to be made by proper international authorities.