The State Department did not immediately respond to a question seeking details. And so, for the past two years, our entire family has been living in daily torment, constantly reminded that many of the household and clothing items, as well as shoes, that surround us may have been produced by my own sisters enslavement. My heartfelt gratitude to the U.S. government, particularly the State Department, for determining the atrocities against my people to be genocide, after all the pain and suffering we have gone through." The threshold isn't the killing of members of a targeted group, but rather, any acts causing serious bodily or mental harm, the institution of measures intended to prevent births, or forcible transfer of one group's children to another. Modern-day slavery is woven into cotton T-shirts, pillowcases and sneaker laces.
The State Department immediately responded to a question.
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