China hat Hunderte uigurische Dörfer und Städte umbenannt

under the claim of “counter terrorism”, China has renamed Uyghur cities and villages. The article notes that this is not necessarily the first time China has done this. Approximately 11M Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities live in Xinjiang, a vast region bordering Kazakhstan. Mass detentions, political indoctrination, family separations, and forced labor were allegedly part of a 2017 assimilation campaign. In 2009, China began to swap out Uyghur city names for ones better suited to the CCP.