The Vulnerable People Project Condemns the Joe Biden Administration for Ignoring the Genocide of the Uyghurs

As Chinese President XI Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden meet at APEC, VPP cites a failed opportunity to address crimes against the Uyghurs

​WASHINGTON D.C. - NOVEMBER 21, 2023. Jason Jones, founder and president of The Vulnerable People Project condemns the Biden Administration for its consistent denial of the ongoing systematic genocide of the Uyghurs, a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in what’s been characterized as the greatest genocide since the Jewish Holocaust. Recently, United States President Joe Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 30th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in San Francisco. There was no mention of the crimes against the Uyghurs at the APEC summit.

“It was a failed opportunity on the part of our U.S. President,” said Jason Jones, founder and president of The Vulnerable People Project. “To celebrate the economy, and so-called stability among our nations but to completely ignore and omit the genocide of the Uyghur population is incomprehe“It is one of the greatest honors of my life to be the first recipient of the East Turkistan Order of Friendship Medal,” said Jason Jones. “Our mission is to defend the vulnerable from violence by promoting human dignity and inspiring solidarity. We don’t do the work for awards, but it is our hope that this recognition will garner more visibility for the Uyghur who are utterly defenseless against the CCP and currently barred from freely practicing religion and have been rounded up in concentration camps. The CCP has created an arbitrary detention system where there are an estimated three million plus who are imprisoned, sterilized, placed under surveillance and ultimately obliterated. The humanitarian crisis of these people necessitates we lend them our voice to demand urgent action to liberate these men and women. This award is a mere recognition of the crisis and acknowledgement that our work is making a difference to expose these injustices and create wider international interest and spotlight for the Uyghurs. VPP will not stop until we see dignity and life for these men and women. I urge Americans to pray for the Uyghurs.”

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ABOUT JASON JONES

Jason Jones is a film producer, author, activist, and human rights worker. He is president of Movie to Movement, the Human Rights Education Organization (H.E.R.O.), and founder and president of The Vulnerable People Project.

In 2006, Jones was Executive Producer of “Bella” which won several film industry awards, most notably the People’s Choice Award at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. He was Associate Producer of the 2008 film, “The Stoning of Soraya M.” which won the Los Angeles Film Festival Audience Award in 2009 as well as the NAACP Image Award in 2009. In 2012, he was the producer of the TV Movie “Mother Marianne: Portrait of a Saint” and an Executive Producer of the new film “Voiceless.” His short films include “Eyes to See” (2010), “Crescendo” (2011) and “Sing a Little Louder” (2015). His most recent film “Divided Hearts of America” is now streaming on Fox Nation.

Jason works directly to aid the homeless, people facing genocide, and women with crisis pregnancies. A regular contributor to the Christian News site, “The Stream,” he is the author of two books, The Race to Save Our Century and his most recent, The World is on Fire, released October 2017. He is the host of the internationally known podcast “The Jason Jones Show” available on iTunes.nsible. We like to think of ourselves as the greatest nation on the earth but we are only great when we stand with the vulnerable and are an advocate for peace, freedom, and justice. Our silence is inexcusable in this era where there is so much technological advancement. We will not be asked ‘When did you know of the Uyghur genocide and what did you do about it?’ We will be judged for knowing and doing nothing.”

Jason Jones, founder and president of The Vulnerable People Project has been a fierce advocate

for the Uyghur and was the recent recipient of the East Turkestan Order of Friendship Medal for his advocacy on behalf of the Uyghur and the peoples of occupied East Turkestan.