On June 18, "Human Rights Watch" and "Uighiryar" Foundation published a report on the Chineseization of place names related to Uyghur history, culture, and religion. Since June 20, more news and articles have been published in the European press, further drawing attention to the changes in the Uyghur region where the genocide is taking place.
On June 20, ARD, a German national television channel, reported that "China is erasing the names of Uyghur villages". Now, according to non-governmental organizations, China's systematic repression of Muslim minorities has intensified. The Chinese leadership has lost sight of or changed the names of hundreds of Uighur villages and territories in the western People's Republic of China in recent years.
On June 20, Austria's national radio and television channel, ORF, published a report entitled "China has lost the names of many Uyghur villages". Human rights organizations accuse Beijing of abusing Uyghurs, torturing them and forcing them into labor camps. A new report by non-governmental organizations shows that Beijing is changing the names of hundreds of towns and cities and destroying religious or cultural monuments.
Britain's BBC Radio-Television channel published the news on June 20, "Human rights in Xinjiang: China, which changed the name of Xinjiang villages, is accused of cultural genocide" and the June 20 "Voice of France" published "Xinjiang: If Beijing loses its national identity in one hand, On the other hand, in the news "Building a fake mask of peace through famous stage productions", it was stated that the Chinese Uyghurs had changed the names of hundreds of ancient villages, suggesting that the Chinese regime was engaged in not only genocide, but also typical cultural genocide.
"Human Rights Watch" and the "Uighiryar" Foundation released this report on June 18 about the Chineseization of place names related to the history, culture, and religion of the Uyghurs. It has been almost 2 years since former High Commissioner Bachelet published a report about "crimes against humanity" in the Uyghur region.
Why is the Chineseization of Uyghur place names so powerful in the West?
According to the situation analyst in Germany, the names of places are a typical trace of a nation's national identity and culture spanning centuries. According to him, the Chineseization of Uyghur place names is a vivid expression of the level of assimilation Uyghur has reached, and because it is a manifestation of the peak of the genocide that Uyghur are facing, Westerners who understand this are paying more attention to this problem.
According to Ms. Oranur Siddiq, a witness of the prison camps in the Netherlands, China's Chineseization of Uyghur place names is the product of the evil intention of making East Turkistan a part of China forever. as Mrs. Gulbahar Khativaji, a witness of French prison camps, also expressed her impressions about this.
According to Norway's Uyghur intellectual Mr. Samet Abla, the reason why the Chineseization of Uyghur place names has caused a strong reaction in the Western press is that this topic reveals to the world China's elaborate plan for the assimilation policy of Uyghurs.
In many reports published in the Western press about the Chineseization of Uyghur place names, the freedom, human rights, and dignity of millions of people in the Uyghur region have been violated since China's "three-forces" struggle since 2014 and its prison camp policy since 2017. It has also been suggested that serious human tragedies involving pride and culture are taking place.