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Teach Uyghur Project: One-Week Lesson Plan Uyghur American Association

This document is a one-week lesson plan consisting of five one-hour lessons on the history of Uyghurs and East Turkistan, and on the modern-day repression campaign being perpetrated against Uyghurs in China by the government of China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

 

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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

Propaganda

This is a roadside propaganda sign of the Communist Party of China located within the vicinity of the Turpan Museum in Turpan, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. The sign is written in both Uyghur and Chinese. The main message in the middle says 'I liken the party to my mother.'

This is a roadside propaganda sign of the Communist Party of China located within the vicinity of the Turpan Museum in Turpan, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. The sign is written in both Uyghur and Chinese. The main message in the middle says "I liken the party to my mother."

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