US EditionChina renames hundreds of Uighur villages
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A human rights organization affirms that terms of historical importance to Uighurs are being abandoned; Beijing denies the accusations. China changed the names of hundreds of villages in the Xinjiang region, northwestern part of the country, to try to erase Uighur Muslim culture in the country, according to a complaint from the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW). The organization's report showed that, between 2009 and 2023, 630 local names were replac…
The Uighurs in northwest China have been the target of an inhuman 're-education' campaign for years. Beijing has now removed Islamic references in hundreds of village names.
China's leadership is said to have renamed hundreds of Uyghur villages and thus destroyed their cultural, religious or historical significance. This is reported by Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian non-governmental organization Uyghur Hjelp. By Benjamin Eyssel.
According to the NGO Human Rights Watch, hundreds of village names have been changed in the region where the Uighurs live.
China changes hundreds of village names 'to erase Uyghur culture', HRW report says
Authorities in China's western Xinjiang region are systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist Party's ideology, a report released by Human Rights Watch says.
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