FRANCES MARTEL

Breitbart

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) pressured the New York Times once again on Thursday to clarify if it had colluded with the Communist Party of China to hide documents implicating dictator Xi Jinping in the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people in occupied East Turkistan, China.

Rubio sent a letter to the Times – a far-left publication that has won the Pulitzer Prize for publishing fake news whitewashing genocide – last week asking the same question, along with other inquiries related to the fact that the newspaper obtained documents in 2019 that would have revealed that the Chinese genocide of Uyghurs was not the product of rogue officials, but prompted by a directive from Xi himself. Human rights activists have repeatedly urged legal institutions such as the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute Xi for genocide and crimes against humanity, but the ICC has refused on the grounds that it did not have sufficient evidence that Xi personally ordered the genocide – the kind of information the New York Times chose not to publish.

Following the first round of inquiries from Rubio, the New York Times assistant international managing editor Michael Slackman published a defensive response claiming Rubio was “wrong on the facts” and the Times had, in fact, “specifically connect[ed] the crackdown [genocide], including the internment of more than one million ethnic Uyghurs, Kazakhs and others, to Mr. Xi.”

Slackman admitted, however, that the newspaper “chose not to publish the documents in their entirety,” alleging, without elaborating, that doing so would have put the source who leaked the documents “at risk.”

On Thursday, Rubio responded in a letter to the publisher of the newspaper, A.G. Sulzberger, noting that Slackman did not answer most of the questions Rubio posed to the newspaper.

“In response to my November 30 letter, Assistant Managing Editor for International Michael Slackman confirmed that the New York Times intentionally withheld nearly every document,” Rubio wrote, “Critically important information was contained within the hundreds of pages that were hidden—and continue to be hidden—from the American people and governments across the globe.”

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