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  • chief Canada's lower house of parliament has voted in favor of labeling China's treatment of Wigan Muslims as genocide in a symbolic move that may pile more pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to take a harder line on the issue on follow the U.

  • S government.

  • Similar accusations.

  • Monday's vote in the House of Commons past 266 to 0, although Trudeau and his Cabinet abstained.

  • The house has a total of 338 members.

  • The vote was nonbinding, although it was backed by all opposition parties and some members of Trudeau's own Liberal Party.

  • Trudeau has been reluctant to use the word genocide aunt has suggested that he wants broader consensus among Western allies.

  • Over the vast complex is that China has set up in the Xinjiang province.

  • China calls them vocational training centers to combat extremism.

  • Aunt has strictly denied allegations of human rights abuses within them.

  • On Tuesday, China's Foreign Ministry called Canada's vote a smear that disregards fax and common sense.

  • Former US President Donald Trump, on his last day of office, said China had committed genocide and crimes against humanity by repressing Wigan Muslims.

chief Canada's lower house of parliament has voted in favor of labeling China's treatment of Wigan Muslims as genocide in a symbolic move that may pile more pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to take a harder line on the issue on follow the U.

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