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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Canadian lawmakers decided on Monday (2/22/2021) to classify China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang as genocide. This is linked to reports from human rights groups (HAM) which claim that China has detained a million Uyghurs in camps, subjected them to forced labor and sterilized women of this ethnic group.

The motion “The Uyghurs in China have been and are being subjected to genocide” was unanimously adopted in the Canadian House of Representatives (DPR). Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was also tasked with carrying out the labeling. The motion also calls for postponing the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing if the “genocide” continues.

The United States had already used this label when Donald Trump came to power in January 2021. Trudeau said Friday that there were reports of significant abuses coming from Xinjiang and that Canada was consulting with international allies on the use of this term. “genocide” in response to the persecution of the Uyghurs. .

Meanwhile, Beijing responded on Tuesday (23/2/2021) by calling the motion a shameful act. China also called it a malicious provocation against the country’s 1.4 billion people.

“Canada’s efforts to contain China’s developments by passing a motion regarding Xinjiang will fail,” the Chinese embassy in Ottawa said in a statement cited. AFP.

The Chinese embassy accused Canadian lawmakers of hypocrisy and immodesty. For using human rights reasons to engage in political manipulation in Xinjiang.

Previously, relations between China and Canada had deteriorated since late 2018, which began with the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Canada based on a US arrest warrant. China subsequently arrested two Canadians, former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, in what Ottawa called retaliation.

Additionally, Canada recently joined the United States, Japan, Australia and several European countries in a mission to stop China’s expansion in the South China Sea (SCS). China claims 90% of the area and puts it in tension with many countries.

[Gambas:Video CNBC]