In the last decade, China has intensified the brutal campaign of systematic repression against Uygar people. According to the Atlantic Council report, despite global outrage and increasing evidence of large -scale human rights violations, China’s ruling rule is maintaining its strict control over the region. Since 2017, two million Uygars have been arbitrarily detained in the huge detention camps, where they face forcibly political ideology, torture, limbs and forcibly rejecting their religion and ethnic identity. The Atlantic Council said that these acts have been identified by the United Nations as a possible crime against humanity, while governments including the United States officially termed them as a massacre.
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According to the Atlantic Council, these programs are operated through two main systems: exploiting prisoners in camps for industrial labor, and forcibly transferring Uygars to work in factories and fields across China in the name of “poverty alleviation”. Both language are based on forced, threats and cultural destruction through restrictions and ideology. The Uygar region is deeply connected in global supply chains. It produces 20 percent of the world’s cotton, 25 percent tomatoes, 45 percent solar-grade polysilicon and about 9 percent aluminum. According to the Atlantic Council report, these resources contaminated from labor, these resources, make their way in the worldwide products, such as clothes, electronics, agriculture and even American federal food programs and seafood used in support shipments.
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In response, the United States has played a leading role in facing China’s forcible labor system. In 2021, the historic Uyar forcibly signed as a law, forcibly made the perception that any goods from the Uygar region are forcibly produced under labor, until otherwise proved. The Atlantic Council said that since the introduction of enforcement in June 2022, US customs and border security have seized goods worth more than US $ 3.69 billion, which has blocked about 1 billion US dollars.