Western Standard - November 15, 2022


Trudeau responds to China's treatment of Uighur people as 'genocide'.


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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

86.247086

Word count

148

Sentence count

6


Summary

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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

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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
00:00:10.320 of genocide, so why haven't you?
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.