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Human Rights Watch accuses Chinese authorities of systematically renaming Uyghur villages in Xinjiang <\/a>in a way that erases references to Uyghur religion, history or culture. According to their research, about 3,600 of 25,000 villages in Xinjiang were renamed between 2009 and 2023. \u201cAbout four-fifths of these changes appear\u00a0mundane, such as number changes, or corrections to names previously written incorrectly. But the 630, about a fifth, involve changes of a religious, cultural, or historical nature.\u201d [BBC News<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Human Rights Watch accuses Chinese authorities of systematically renaming Uyghur villages in Xinjiang in a way that erases references to Uyghur religion, history or culture. 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