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Andy Barr: “The U.S. Government is not operating concentration camps, not engaged in extrajudicial detention, collective punishment…”

On the recordMay 5, 2021
The U.S. Government is not operating concentration camps, not engaged in extrajudicial detention, collective punishment, guilt by association, systematic torture and rape, medications inducing infertility/impaired mental function, torture, rape, forced abortion, withholding medical care, and intense political indoctrination.
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Andy Barr
Republican · Kentucky

Editor's note · Context

Barr refutes claims of U.S. human rights abuses in comparison to China's actions in Xinjiang.

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