The U.S. Senate passed a bill Wednesday [September 11] to condemn China’s human rights atrocities against Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim ethnic minorities in its western territories, raising national awareness on Beijing’s construction of concentration camps to house millions of its citizens.

The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019 would, among other things, require the U.S. government to actively pressure the United Nations and other international venues to act against China’s human rights abuses and urge the Secretary of Commerce to consider ending U.S. trade with government officials in Xinjiang, China’s westernmost province. The bill would also encourage the application of Global Magnitsky Act sanctions on individuals responsible for creating and maintaining the camps.

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Pentagon officials estimated this year that the Communist Party of China (CPC) has imprisoned and enslaved as many as three million Muslims in Xinjiang, most members of the Uighur (or Uyghur) minority. Eyewitnesses who escaped the Xinjiang camps say they saw evidence of forced labor, torture, and organ harvesting.

The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act must now pass the House of Representatives and go through a standardizing process with the Senate version before reaching President Donald Trump’s desk.

The bill is a product of a growing bipartisan consensus in Congress against China’s human rights abuses. The bill that passed Wednesday was the work of Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ), both vocal critics of the Communist Party’s atrocities against its people. Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY) introduced the House of Representatives version, which has strong support from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

“What they’re doing to the Uyghurs is outside the circle of civilized human behavior to have millions of people in prison for what they believe,” Pelosi said at an event in June.

The text of the bill serves to “condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang” and calls “for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and harassment of these communities inside and outside China.”

The bill would also require the Secretary of State to issue an annual assessment of the size and conditions of the Xinjiang camps to help officials decide how severely to implement sanctions or condemn Beijing.

Rubio called the bill’s passing in the Senate “long overdue” in a statement Wednesday.

“It’s long overdue for the United States to hold Chinese government and Communist Party officials accountable for the systemic and egregious human rights abuses and probable crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, including the internment in ‘political re-education’ camps of more than one million Uyghurs and Muslim minorities,” Rubio said. “I urge the House to swiftly pass this legislation and send it to the President’s desk.”

(Excerpt from Breitbart. Article by Francis Martel.)

Reports are that these barbaric organ harvesting is happening now to Christians in China as well.  Keep praying, Church, for the persecution in China to end.