As a result of that denial,
China has repeatedly denied U.S. charges of wrongdoing in its Uighur policy, and Hua said these policies were "not about human rights, ethnicity or religion, but about fighting violence, terrorism and separatism." She then turned on the lawmakers passing the bill, accusing them of "ignorance," "brazenness" and "hypocrisy" as she brought up their own experience with ethnic cleansing.
"The two-century long American history is tainted with the blood and tears of native Indians, who were originally master of the continent," Hua told reporters. "However, starting from the 19th century, the U.S. Army occupied millions of square kilometers of land and grabbed countless natural resources by expelling and slaughtering native Indians through the Westward Expansion."
"Apart from that, the U.S. also conducts forced assimilation of Native Americans, killing, expelling and persecuting them and denying them their due civil rights," she added. "Today, they only account for 2.09 percent of the total U.S. population. They are facing numerous difficulties, including backward infrastructure in reservations, shortage of water and electricity, lack of Internet access, unemployment, poverty, diseases and poor living conditions. In front of all these shocking facts, can the U.S. politicians feign ignorance? Where is their conscience?"
What is at least one thing the US could do, so that when confronted by the truth, would be some bare evidence of positive change?
On Dec. 29, 1890, the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry opened fire on hundreds of Native Americans in one of most shameful and bloody acts of violence against indigenous people in American history.
“I have never heard of a more brutal, cold-blooded massacre than that at Wounded Knee,” wrote Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, who served as an Army commander during the Indian wars. A majority of the dead were women and children.
For these acts at Wounded Knee, 20 Medals of Honor were awarded to the soldiers of the 7th Cavalry. Over a century later, some lawmakers are trying to take those awards away.
On Wednesday, two Senate Democrats unveiled legislation to strip the Medals of Honor from the American soldiers who participated in the Wounded Knee massacre. The bill, known as the Remove the Stain Act, was announced Wednesday by Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (Ore.), and serves as the Senate equivalent of a House bill introduced this year.
Everyone knows how the US denies Genocide of American Indians, except Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (Ore.). Bills talk and bullshit walks.
Saturday, Dec 7, 2019 · 7:09:19 PM +00:00 · Winter Rabbit
WHAT: Press Conference to announce the introduction of the Remove the Stain Act, a bill rescinding the Medals of Honor awarded for acts at the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre
WHO: Rep. Denny Heck (WA-10)
Rep. Deb Haaland (NM-01)
Oliver “OJ” Semans – USN Veteran, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Co-Executive Director of Four Directions, Inc.
Marcella LeBeau – 1st Lt. Army Nurse Corps, D-Day, French Legion of Honor, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
Manny Iron Hawk – Chairman of HAWK 1890 (Heartbeat At Wounded Knee), Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
Phyllis Hollow Horn – Oglala Sioux Tribe
WHEN: Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 11:00 a.m. EDT
WHERE: Longworth House Office Building, Room 1334
Reps. Denny Heck (WA-10), Deb Haaland (NM-01), and Paul Cook (CA-08) are introducing in the U.S. House of Representatives theRemove the Stain Act, a bill that rescinds the Medals of Honor awarded for the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Saturday, Dec 7, 2019 · 7:12:06 PM +00:00 · Winter Rabbit
cook.house.gov/...
WASHINGTON –Rep. Cook (R- Apple Valley) announced today that he is co-sponsoring the Remove the Stain Act. The bipartisan bill was introduced by Rep. Denny Heck (D-Washington).
The Remove the Stain Act, would rescind twenty Medals of Honor from individuals who participated in the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890, which resulted in the killing of over 250 Lakota Sioux, over half of which were women and children.
Saturday, Dec 7, 2019 · 7:13:44 PM +00:00 · Winter Rabbit
dennyheck.house.gov/...
Legislation to rescind 20 Congressional Medals of Honor awarded after the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee in South Dakota was unveiled Wednesday by U.S. Rep. Denny Heck, D-Wash., and two House colleagues.
"We're 129 years late, but we still can act," said Heck, in Washington, D.C., introducing the Remove the Stain Act.
An estimated 250 Native Americans, many of them women and children, were killed by 7th Cavalry troops on Dec. 29, 1890.
Heck was a close friend of the late Native American leader Billy Frank, Jr., and was the driving force of renaming the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge after Frank.
A native group called Four Directions began the campaign to rescind the Wounded Knee medals, reacting to President Trump's mocking of Sen. Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas" over her now-documented native ancestry.