
FILE - Uyghur children play at a square where a propaganda poster showing Han Chinese and Uyghurs posing together in a photograph with the words "Hotan City Unity New Village Unity Square" on display, 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)


