1.1 	A House resolution
1.2 	condemning Chinese treatment of and human rights violations against the Uyghurs.
1.3 	WHEREAS, there are about 12 million Uyghurs, mostly practicing Muslims, who live in the 
1.4 	Xinjiang region in northwestern China; and
1.5 	WHEREAS, as an ethnic and religious minority group, the Uyghurs have faced increasing 
1.6 	surveillance and cultural suppression by the Chinese government, including mandatory government 
1.7 	facial recognition and cell phone checkpoints, installation of cameras in private homes and mosques, 
1.8 	and imprisonment for teaching the Uyghur language; and
1.9 	WHEREAS, as many as one million Uyghurs have been detained in "re-education" and forced 
1.10 	work camps while birthrates among the Uyghurs has plummeted, consistent with reports of forced 
1.11 	contraception and sterilization in these camps; and
1.12 	WHEREAS, the United States, the leader of the free world, cannot turn a blind eye to the 
1.13 	atrocities happening across the globe and sanctioned Chinese regional officials and a security agency 
1.14 	in July of 2020 for their roles in the detentions of the Uyghurs; NOW, THEREFORE,
1.15 	BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of Minnesota that it condemns 
1.16 	the actions of the Chinese government against the Uyghurs.