Villages once known by religious, historical or cultural terms of the Muslim minority group now carry names like “Red flag” or “Unity”.
China has renamed at least 630 villages in Xinjiang, erasing references to Uyghur culture in what human rights advocates say is a systematic propaganda rebrand designed to stamp out the Muslim minority group’s identity.by Chinese authorities in the country’s north-western region, with “Happiness,” “Unity,” and “Harmony” among the most common replacement names for villages.
Human Rights Watch identified the mass renaming of villages by scraping the website of the National Bureau of Statistics of China, which publishes lists of villages. They found that most of the renaming occurred between 2017 and 2019, when China’s crackdown on Uyghurs intensified, and predominantly occurred in the Kashgar, Aksu and Hotan prefectures in southern Xinjiang, home to large populations of the Muslim ethnic group.
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