Dec 12, 2025
This week, Select Committee Chairman John Moolenaar spoke at the Uyghur Genocide Resistance event organized by the Uyghur Human Rights Project, Campaign for Uyghurs, the Uyghur Academy, and partner groups. He honored the Abbas family and all Uyghur activists for their courage, condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing genocide, and stressed the need to enforce the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA).
In his prepared remarks, Moolenaar thanked the Abbas family for their advocacy and acknowledged the risks Uyghur activists face even outside China. He praised their perseverance despite the suffering inflicted on their families.
Moolenaar described communism as a “broken and bankrupt ideology” that suppresses faith and targets believers. He said the CCP commits atrocities—including mass internment, mosque destruction, and forced sterilization—because it fears people who hold values higher than the state.
He compared today’s fight for Uyghur rights to William Wilberforce’s long struggle to abolish slavery, quoting Wilberforce’s warning: “You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know.”
Moolenaar said the Select Committee will continue exposing the CCP’s abuses and the use of forced labor in global supply chains. He urged strict enforcement of the UFLPA and said companies that cooperate with entities linked to the genocide “betray their customers and their own values.”
He closed by thanking Uyghur advocates for their resilience: “Thank you for never looking away in this fight against the CCP.”
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