WASHINGTON: The United States will use this month's UN General Assembly to rally support for the Uighurs, whose treatment by China is among"the worst stains on the world," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday .
"As I said before, this may end up being one of the worst stains on the world of this century. It's of that magnitude," he said. Responding to a student's question about progress, Pompeo said that efforts were going"insufficiently" because the situation had not changed in China's western region of Xinjiang."Our tool-set is to identify the challenge and then to rally the world, and we have done so today with some success but not nearly enough," Pompeo said.
Chinese officials have described the camps as providing vocational training and said that"most" people have left, without sharing figures.