By Tursunjan, December 14, 2023
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15), a member of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), celebrated the passage of his bipartisan legislation, H.R. 3349, the “Uyghur Genocide Intelligence Review Act,” as part of the NDAA.
“Today, my Uyghur Genocide Intelligence Review Act passed the House as part of the NDAA. The CCP’s ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people is a crime against humanity. My legislation will require @ODNIgov to gather intelligence on the ongoing genocide and report it to Congress,” said Rep. on Twitter.
“There is clear and convincing evidence that the CCP intends to destroy the history, culture, identity, and existence of Uyghurs as a people, whose birthrates have already plummeted by 50% because of forced abortions and sterilizations,” said Rep. Torres on his July statement.
This is the first bill that uses the term “Uyghur Genocide” in its name and the first key legislative priority officially adopted by the House Select Committee on the CCP to pass out of any congressional committee.
“It is truly a policy win to see that up-to-date documentation on the Uyghur genocide will be required as part of the FY24 Intelligence Authorization Act,” said Omer Kanat, Executive Director, Uyghur Human Rights Project. “We are thankful to Rep. Torres and his staff for ensuring that the policy recommendations of the Select Committee are being pushed forward. A failure to address atrocity crimes will only further destabilize the entire global community.”
The “Uyghur Genocide Intelligence Review Act” requires the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) within 180 days of being signed into law to coordinate with relevant heads of the intelligence community and submit to congressional intelligence committees a report on the Uyghur genocide addressing the following matters:
- The forced sterilization, forced birth control, and forced abortion of Uyghurs.
- The forced transfer of Uyghur children from their families.
- The forced labor of Uyghurs, inside and outside Xinjiang.
- The work conditions of Uyghur laborers, including identification of any company organized under the laws of the People’s Republic of China.
