{"id":2014027,"date":"2023-08-28T08:49:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T12:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/samantha-power-wrote-the-book-on-genocide-so-why-is-she-ignoring-it\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T08:52:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T12:52:36","slug":"samantha-power-wrote-the-book-on-genocide-so-why-is-she-ignoring-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/samantha-power-wrote-the-book-on-genocide-so-why-is-she-ignoring-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Power, the Genocide Expert, Fails to Address the Issue."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsamantha-power-wrote-the-book-on-genocide-so-why-is-she-ignoring-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2014027&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Former U.S. Ambassador Silent on China&#8217;s Human\u2062 Rights Abuses<\/h2>\n<p>While \u200cin Fiji for a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/news-information\/speeches\/aug-16-2023-administrator-samantha-power-speaks-us-indo-pacific-command-chiefs-defense-chod-conference?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indo-Pacific Security\u200d Conference<\/a>, former U.S. Ambassador to the \u2064UN and current \u200dUSAID Administrator Samantha \u2064Power spoke about climate change and \u200btweeted a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1691961784108786077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video of \u2064herself playing rugby<\/a>. She \u2063did not mention the threat China poses to the region or any of China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-like-the-good-old-days-joe-biden-invades-syria-with-convoy-of-us-troops-and-choppers-on-first-full-day-as-president\/\" title=\"Just Like the Good Old Days: Joe Biden Invades Syria with Convoy of US Troops and Choppers on First Full Day as President\">human rights abuses<\/a>,\u2063 including the genocide against \u2063its \u200down \u200bMuslim population.<\/p>\n<p>Back in \u200d2021, \u2063she tweeted a \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PowerUSAID\/status\/1421556705666732040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video of\u200b herself playing volleyball<\/a> in\u2063 Darfur, Sudan. While \u2062in Darfur, \u200cshe never mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2008\/feb\/14\/china.sudan#:~:text=China%20stands%20accused%20of%20twin,against%20the%20government%20in%20Khartoum.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China\u2019s role in funding the genocide\u2063 there<\/a>. Her priorities seem to have changed since she won the Pulitzer Prize for <em>A Problem from \u2064Hell<\/em>, \u200cher 2002 book about America\u2019s history of failing to intervene to stop genocide.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Silence on China&#8217;s Genocide<\/h3>\n<p>The Chinese government is committing \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspi.org.au\/report\/uyghurs-sale#:~:text=This%20report%20estimates%20that%20more,sent%20directly%20from%20detention%20camps.&#038;text=The%20estimated%20figure%20is%20conservative,likely%20to%20be%20far%20higher.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a well-documented genocide<\/a>, and Power knows it. \u2064Forced sterilization and forced abortion for the\u200c purpose of eradicating an ethnic \u200cand religious group meet the legal definition of\u2064 genocide. Yet since \u2064being named USAID administrator, she has not spoken much about it publicly. (I found a single \u2062vague reference to it in a <a href=\"https:\/\/china.usembassy-china.org.cn\/usaid-administrator-samantha-power-remarks-at-the-national-press-club-a-global-revolution-of-dignity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speech<\/a> at the National Press \u200dClub in 2022.)<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 1 million Muslims being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/24\/like-a-war-zone-congress-hears-of-chinas-abuses-in-xinjiang-re-education-camps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">enslaved, forcibly sterilized,\u2062 and tortured<\/a> in concentration camps with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/extra\/85qihtvw6e\/the-faces-from-chinas-uyghur-detention-camps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cshoot to kill\u201d<\/a> policy for attempted escapees. Prisoners range in age from\u2062 15\u2064 to\u2062 73. In women\u2019s camps in Xinjiang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-55794071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">guards use \u200bwhat has been referred to as an \u201celectrified stick,\u201d<\/a> \u2064which is essentially a cattle prod, \u200dto repeatedly rape the detainees. One Uyghur\u200d woman, who \u2063was forced\u2064 to handcuff prisoners \u2062before they\u200c were tortured, managed to flee to Kazakhstan. In an interview, she said she still hears the screams \u2062and will never stop hearing the screams.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>A \u200bProblem from Hell<\/em>, Power\u2064 refers to a different type of screamer. \u2064\u201cScreamers\u201d were \u200c\u201cthose frustrated few who spoke\u2063 up in the newspapers and public meetings against Nazi atrocities.\u201d According to the \u200dold Power, \u201call of the latter-day Screamers treated\u200c silence\u2064 as if it were a further \u200ccrime against humanity.\u201d It \u200dturns out, the new Power is \u2062not\u2064 a Screamer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>A Problem from Hell<\/em> brilliantly and passionately details America\u2019s catastrophic failure to meet its obligation to stop \u2063genocide. Power \u200cfamously criticized the Clinton administration\u2019s use of the phrase \u201cacts of \u200bgenocide\u201d to describe the atrocities in Rwanda in 1994. In the final days of the Trump administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/2017-2021.state.gov\/determination-of-the-secretary-of-state-on-atrocities-in-xinjiang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the State Department officially called the actions of the Chinese government genocide<\/a>. The Biden administration has not \u2062revoked this designation, yet Power is still not screaming.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Responsibility to \u2062Protect<\/h3>\n<p>The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide has been binding international law since the 1950s and requires the \u2063international community to intervene to stop genocide. The beloved neoliberal\u200d principle, \u201cthe Responsibility to Protect,\u201d also requires action in the face of \u2062genocide. Yet\u200b the administration she works for barely mustered a hollow condemnation and limited sanctions against small numbers of individuals and companies from Xinjiang, \u200deven though forced Uyghur labor is being used in factories outside of Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>These and other symbolic gestures, like clothing retailer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/06\/business\/xinjiang-china-cotton-brands.html#:~:text=Faced%20with%20accusations%20that%20it,buying%20cotton%20from%20the%20region\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H&#038;M refusing to use cotton suppliers from Xinjiang<\/a>, will not change China\u2019s behavior. \u2063They are not \u200dreally intended to pressure China because, in the end, China makes them rich. These companies and politicians are merely playacting to evade the substantive \u200bcosts \u2062of disentangling themselves \u2062from China. And when bureaucrats like Power refuse to \u201cscream,\u201d it makes it easier for them to profit \u200bfrom the\u200c genocide.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the \u201crules-based\u201d international order, the Chinese government has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/samantha-power-wrote-the-book-on-genocide-so-why-is-she-ignoring-it\/\" title=\"Samantha Power, the Genocide Expert, Fails to Address the Issue.\">flouted\u2063 international human\u2063 rights law<\/a> with impunity for decades inside and outside \u200cof China, particularly throughout Africa. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2016\/01\/child-labour-behind-smart-phone-and-electric-car-batteries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">children as young \u2063as 9 work in dangerous conditions in Chinese-owned cobalt mines<\/a>. Apple and other technology\u200d companies use cobalt \u200din <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/outdated-solar-panels-wind-turbines-electric-car-batteries-will-clog-landfills-with-hazardous-waste-according-to-new-report\/\" title=\"Outdated Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, Electric Car Batteries Will Clog Landfills With Hazardous Waste According To New Report\">lithium-ion batteries<\/a> for smartphones and laptops. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2018\/oct\/12\/phone-misery-children-congo-cobalt-mines-drc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chinese middlemen in<\/a> companies like Congo Dongfang \u200bInternational Mining pay\u200c the children about 65 cents a day for the cobalt they mine.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, before working for the Biden administration, Power gave a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T2sW9hNM9Fk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speech<\/a> explaining how \u2062China undermines human rights wherever it has influence, particularly \u2062at\u2064 the UN. \u2064For example, in order to protect its oil interests in Sudan, China threatened to veto any Security Council resolutions critical of the \u200bSudanese government during the genocide\u200c in Darfur. China also prevented\u200d the deployment of peacekeepers there.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015,\u2062 about 700 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/oct\/06\/un-peacekeepers-refused-to-help-south-sudan-rebels-raped-aid-workers-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chinese peacekeepers<\/a> were \u2063deployed\u2062 to South Sudan where they essentially protected\u2064 Chinese oil fields and not \u200bcivilians. As fighting continues in and between Sudan and South Sudan, both countries remain dependent on China. The \u2062only condition China has placed on them is that they do not recognize Taiwan as\u2063 an independent nation. So, one of the few\u200c things these\u2062 famine-afflicted,\u2062 war-torn enemies agree on is that\u200d Taiwan belongs\u2063 to China.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese\u2062 government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">harvests the organs of political prisoners<\/a>; arrests and \u201cdisappears\u201d publishers, book-sellers, and protesters in Hong Kong; \u2063plunders the waters around the Galapagos Islands; detains and tortures lawyers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-biden-took-donations-from-lobbyist-for-nso-group\/\" title=\"Report: Biden took donations from lobbyist for NSO Group\">human rights activists<\/a>, scientists, and journalists; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/02\/16\/china-tibetan-tour-guide-dies-prison-injuries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">imprisons and fatally beats Tibetans<\/a> for handing out pamphlets or teaching their language to their children.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s strategy for containing the coronavirus included installing bars over the doors and windows of homes as\u200c well \u2062as barricading \u200band welding apartment doors \u200bshut to prevent\u2063 people from leaving. \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-51362772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This \u2064resulted in a number of people starving to death, including a boy with cerebral palsy<\/a> whose father \u200band only caregiver \u2064was suspected of having coronavirus \u2062and so was \u200cforcibly removed from their home and quarantined.\u200b As China\u2019s power grows, so does the threat to human rights everywhere. \u2064Samantha \u200dPower used\u200b to say this out loud.<\/p>\n<p>Power should be\u200c \u201cscreaming\u201d \u200dabout human rights and the genocide in China. \u2062If\u2062 she wanted to, she could make genocide \u2063prevention a priority\u200d for the Biden\u200b administration.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Problem from Hell<\/em> details how the \u2064promise of \u2064\u201cNever Again\u201d proved hollow in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Srebrenica because government officials knew \u200dgenocide was occurring but chose to do nothing. Did \u2063Samantha Power change her stance on genocide?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe former President Barack\u200d Obama and \u2062President Joe Biden chose her for top positions in their administrations not\u200b because of \u200dher \u2062specific concern for human rights but because\u200c of her support for military intervention\u2062 more generally. \u2064Either way, her name must be added to the list of government officials who knew and chose not to \u2064\u201cscream.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While attending an Indo-Pacific Security Conference in Fiji, Samantha Power, former US Ambassador to the UN and current USAID Administrator, addressed climate change and shared a rugby video on Twitter. 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