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The Spatial Cleansing of Xinjiang

Builds on the author's book The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History (2014), telling the living history of collective memory, and what is at stake in destroying Uyghur society. By Rian Thum (2020).

The Uyghurs

KASHGAR, XINJIANG / China - October 4, 2017: Three elderly men of the Uyghur minority having a conversation at a street in Kashgar Old Town. Chinese flags are mounted on the house in the background.

KASHGAR, XINJIANG / China - October 4, 2017: Three elderly men of the Uyghur minority having a conversation at a street in Kashgar Old Town. Chinese flags are mounted on the house in the background.

Human Rights

Hotan, China-October 3, 2017: Blue-eyed grandfather of the Uyghur Turkic people holds his napping grandson in his arms while they both sit on the steps of a store at the city's bazaar. Xinjiang Region

Hotan, China-October 3, 2017: Blue-eyed grandfather of the Uyghur Turkic people holds his napping grandson in his arms while they both sit on the steps of a store at the city's bazaar. Xinjiang Region

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