A 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.

III 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 per- petrated 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 geno- cide. Whereas Article 2 of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Geno- cide, which both the United States and the People’s Re- public 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) VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:57 Oct 27, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\SR760.IS SR760 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 2 •SRES 760 IS 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 Repub- lic 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 con- trol campaign against Uyghurs, the birthrate of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re- gion 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; VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:57 Oct 27, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\SR760.IS SR760 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 3 •SRES 760 IS Whereas, in 2018, 80 percent of all net added IUD place- ments in China (calculated as placements minus remov- als) were performed in Xinjiang, despite the fact that the region only makes up 1.8 percent of the nation’s popu- lation; 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 Repub- lic 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, unwar- ranted, and intrusive mass surveillance through the use of new and emerging technologies, including facial rec- ognition software, artificial intelligence, and genetic test- ing; 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 Re- public of China are in contravention of international human rights instruments signed by that government, in- cluding— VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:57 Oct 27, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\SR760.IS SR760 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 4 •SRES 760 IS (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, Sup- press 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 Resolved, That the Senate— 1 (1) declares that the atrocities perpetrated by 2 the Government of the People’s Republic of China 3 against Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and mem- 4 bers of other Muslim minority groups in the 5 Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region constitute 6 genocide; 7 (2) demands that the Government of the Peo- 8 ple’s Republic of China immediately— 9 (A) adhere to its commitments under the 10 1948 United Nations Convention on the Pre- 11 vention and Punishment of the Crime of Geno- 12 cide; 13 (B) halt the genocide it is perpetrating 14 against Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and 15 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:57 Oct 27, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\SR760.IS SR760 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 5 •SRES 760 IS members of other Muslim minority groups in 1 the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; 2 (C) release individuals from internment 3 camps, forced labor programs, and state-run 4 boarding schools; 5 (D) reunite families and rebuild or repair 6 mosques; and 7 (E) guarantee freedom of religion, includ- 8 ing Islam; 9 (3) urges the Administration to take all appro- 10 priate measures, including working with like-minded 11 states and multilateral coalitions, to compel, induce, 12 or otherwise oblige the Government of the People’s 13 Republic of China to immediately take the actions 14 described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of para- 15 graph (2); 16 (4) urges all national governments and inter- 17 national organizations, including the United Nations 18 and its Office of the Secretary-General, to call the 19 Government of the People’s Republic of China’s 20 atrocity crimes by their rightful name: ‘‘genocide’’; 21 (5) urges the Permanent Representative of the 22 United States to the United Nations to take steps 23 to coordinate with other members of the United Na- 24 tions to enact measures to prevent atrocity crimes by 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:57 Oct 27, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\SR760.IS SR760 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 6 •SRES 760 IS the Government of the People’s Republic of China, 1 and to punish those responsible for these ongoing 2 crimes, including by the collection and preservation 3 of evidence, imposing sanctions against perpetrators, 4 and if necessary, the establishment and operation of 5 appropriate tribunals; 6 (6) urges member states of the United Nations 7 to use their votes to bar the Government of the Peo- 8 ple’s Republic of China from membership of any 9 United Nations councils or other component over- 10 seeing human rights until an independent commis- 11 sion established by the United Nations verifies that 12 the People’s Republic of China has returned to ad- 13 hering to its commitments under the 1948 United 14 Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punish- 15 ment of the Crime of Genocide; and 16 (7) encourages the United States Government 17 and United States companies to lead global coali- 18 tions ensuring businesses are not enabling, sup- 19 porting, or profiting off the mass surveillance and 20 forced labor, which is a form of human trafficking, 21 of Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members 22 of other Muslim minority groups in China. 23 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:57 Oct 27, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\SR760.IS SR760 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS