The truth has to be told.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Recently, and finally, the UN has released a report condemning China's treatment of U.Gers.

Given China's clout within the U.N., its strenuous PR and lobbying campaigns and ability to intimidate scholars and witnesses, the report's release,

the report's release was delayed for months.

But finally, in the final few minutes of UN Human Rights Commissioner

Michelle Bachelet's term, the report was released. It strongly condemned China's actions and called

for urgent attention from the UN, validating years of warnings by watchdogs, observers, and

activists. This one report by itself may not change the terrible situation on the ground for Uyghurs in

the Xinjiang province, but nothing will change unless we first tell the truth. As one article

in the Associated Press noted, that the report was released was in some ways as important as

its content. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was himself a witness to the internment of untold millions

in the former USSR.

He said it this way, quote,

the simple step of a simple courageous man is not to partake in falsehood.

One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.