
FILE - A Uyghur woman works at her food stand while her children play in a resting place nearby at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region on Sept 20, 2018. Authorities in China's western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist Party's ideology, as part of an attack on their cultural identity, according to a report released Wednesday, June 19, 2024 by Human Rights Watch. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

