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FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020 (PAGE 8) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU Why Indian soldiers were sent SC stays historic Puri's Rath Yatra Trump signs into law bill to punish China 'unarmed to martyrdom': Rahul NEW DELHI, June 18: due to COVID-19 pandemic over crackdown on Uyghur Muslims WASHINGTON, June 18: Muslims in Xinjiang, was International Cybersecurity Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday questioned why NEW DELHI, June 18: passed with an overwhelming Policy. Indian soldiers were sent "unarmed to martyrdom" in Ladakh The Supreme Court US President Donald Trump support from Republicans and “The internment of at least a and how dare China kill them, a day after asking the Defence Thursday stayed this year's his- has signed into law a legislation Democrats in Congress. million Uyghurs and other Minister why he did not name China in his tweet and why it toric Puri Rath Yatra starting that condemns the gross human Senator Marco Rubio Muslim minorities is reprehensi- took him two days to condole the deaths of 20 Army personnel. from June 23 as also the related rights violations of Uyghur applauded the Act and said that ble and inexcusable, and the Gandhi also shared on Twitter activities due to the COVID-19 minority groups in China’s it is an important step in coun- Chinese Communist Party and an interview of a retired Army offi- pandemic, saying that "Lord restive Muslim-majority tering the totalitarian Chinese government must be held to cer who has worked in the area Jagannath won't forgive us if we where the India-China violent Xinjiang region, paving the way government’s widespread and account. This legislation is the allow" it. for imposing sanctions against horrific human rights abuses in product of a true bipartisan, stand-off took place on Monday A bench of Chief Justice S A night. senior Chinese officials. the Xinjiang Uyghur bicameral effort and I look for- Bobde and Justices Dineesh The Uyghur Human Rights Autonomous Region (XUAR), ward to its full implementation The former Congress president Maheshwari and A S Bopanna has been questioning the govern- Policy Act, 2020 holds account- including the mass internment of soon,” said Senator Jim Risch, said that in the interest of public able the perpetrators of human over one million Uyghurs and Chairman of the Senate Foreign ment over the martyrdom of Indian health and safety of citizens, this soldiers and has demanded answers rights violations and abuses such other predominantly ethnic Relations Committee. year's Rath Yatra at Puri in NGO, 'Odisha Vikas Parishad', Government for not granting any as the systematic use of indoctri- Turkic Muslims, as well as The Uyghur Human Rights from the prime minister. On Odisha can't be allowed. seeking stay on holding of the permission for holding the 'Rath Wednesday, he asked Defence nation camps, forced labour and Beijing’s intimidation and Project (UHRP) welcomed the "Lord Jagannath won't for- annual festival, an appeal has Yatra' festival. intrusive surveillance to eradi- threats against US citizens and enactment of the law. Minister Rajnath Singh why did he "insult" the Army by not give us if we allow this year's been moved by one Surendra The appeal of Panigrahi also naming China over the killing of Indian soldiers in eastern cate the ethnic identity and reli- legal permanent residents on “Uyghurs around the world Rath Yatra to go on", CJI Bobde Panigrahi of 'Bhartiya Bikash mentioned similar grounds for gious beliefs of Uyghurs and American soil. are celebrating,” said Omer Ladakh's Galwan Valley. said, adding that as such a huge Parishad' against the Orissa High deferment of Rath Yatra and "If it was so painful: Why insult Indian Army by not nam- other minorities in China, By signing the Act into law, Kanat, UHRP Executive gathering can't take place during Court order of June 9 which had said, "This time the entire coun- ing China in your tweet? Why take 2 days to condole? Why Trump said. President Trump took a historic Director. the pandemic. asked the state government to try including the state of Odisha address rallies as soldiers were being martyred," he said. However, a section of the step in the support of Uyghur “It’s the kind of news we The bench asked the Odisha decide on holding the 'Rath is presently passing through a On Thursday, he added, "How dare China kill our Act purports to limit his discre- Muslims worldwide and against have been waiting for, more than government not to allow the Yatra' festival in line with the very critical situation due to out- UNARMED soldiers? Why were our soldiers sent UNARMED tion to terminate inadmissibility China’s egregious human rights three years into the Uyghur cri- yatra or pilgrimage procession COVID-19 guidelines. break of COVID-19 pandemic in to martyrdom." sanctions under the Act, he said abuses and probable crimes sis. But the US cannot be the and the related activities any- The PIL said the religious India as well as Puri district". Twenty Indian Army personnel, including a colonel, were on Wednesday. against humanity, he said. sole nation acting to hold the where in the state to avoid the congregation of such nature, On June 9, the High Court on killed in a clash with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in “In some circumstances, this “As the Chinese government perpetrators accountable for spread of coronavirus (COVID- which has been specifically pro- the PIL filed by Panigrahi has eastern Ladakh on Monday night, the biggest military con- limitation could be inconsistent and Communist Party of China their crimes. Uyghurs call on 19). During the hearing, senior hibited by the state government directed that the state govern- frontation in over five decades that has significantly escalated with my constitutional authori- (CPC) continue its mass intern- countries around the world to vide its guidelines dated June 1 ment that in case it decides to the already volatile border standoff in the region. advocate Mukul Rohatgi, ties…,” Trump said. ment of at least a million work together against ethno-reli- and June 7 and the guidelines hold 'Rath Yatra' festival at Puri The clash in Galwan Valley on Monday night is the biggest appearing for the petitioner Reacting to the development, Uyghurs and other Muslim eth- gious persecution, profiling and dated May 30 of Ministry of in consistent with the Covid-19 confrontation between the two militaries after their 1967 clash- NGO, said that if Rath Yatra is the Chinese foreign ministry in nic minorities, the US will hold cultural genocide,” he said. Home Affairs, if allowed, will guidelines, then it must also duly es in Nathu La in 1967 when India lost around 80 soldiers allowed huge congregation of Beijing slammed the law, saying the CPC and its enablers The United States lead to catastrophic results and it consider deploying machinery or while over 300 Chinese army personnel were killed. (PTI) people will take place, exposing it “maliciously attacks” China’s accountable for their heinous Commission on International them to higher risk of infection will be very difficult on the part other means like elephants to policy in the Xinjiang region. crimes,” said Rubio. Religious Freedom thanked by coronavirus. of the authorities to control the pull the chariots. China will “resolutely hit He is the co-chair of the Trump for signing the Uyghur Govt plans customs duty The bench said it is a serious spread of the virus thereafter. The three heavily built back and the US will bear the bipartisan and bicameral Human Rights Policy Act. matter. "Thus, keeping in mind the wooden chariots of Lord burden of all subsequent conse- Congressional-Executive “It is a great day for the hike on host of products Solicitor General Tushar interests of the general public at Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and quences”, it said in a statement Commission on China (CECC), American citizens as well as Mehta, appearing for the Centre, large, it would be apposite to Devi Subhadra are traditionally after Trump signed the Act into the Chairman of the Senate Uyghur and other Turkic people NEW DELHI, Jun 18: said that it needs time till tomor- postpone the Rath Yatra festival pulled manually over a distance law. Foreign Relations’ in China who have been subject row to file the reply. which is scheduled to commence of three kilometres twice during The bill, which includes Subcommittee that oversees to ghastly human rights abuses The government is considering hiking customs duty on a num- A counsel appearing for an on June 23, 2020 and further the nine-day festival of the sanctions on the senior Chinese human rights, and is a member by the Communist Party of ber of products amid ongoing border tensions with China. intervenor said the Odisha gov- continue for a period of 10-12 Trinity at Puri. officials directly involved in the of the subcommittee on East China,” USCIRF Commissioner Discussion is on over hike in duties on goods imported from ernment has issued a notification days thereafter," the plea said. While the festival is sched- crackdown on the Uyghur Asia, the Pacific and Nury Turkel said. (PTI) China, a source said. that there shall be no public It said that if the 'Rath Yatra' uled for June 23, the 'Bahuda Although nothing has been finalised as yet, the focus would be gathering till June 30. is allowed to happen on June 23, Yatra' (return car festival) is on cutting down import of non-essential items, the source said. However, the bench said that despite State Government's pro- fixed for July 1.