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Then and now: China's destruction of Uighur burial grounds


Aksu cemetery

Satellite images of a graveyard in Aksu, Xinjiang province, in 2015 where Uighur poet Lutpulla Mutellip was buried, and the same view in 2019 showing a new area called Happiness Park.

Xayar cemetery

A cemetery in Xayar in 2017, and the same view in 2019

Sulanim cemetery

The Sulanim cemetery in Hotan in 2018 and the same view in 2019 with no sign of the facility – now partially replaced with a car park.

Xayar cemetery

A burial ground in Xayar in 2014, and the same view in 2019 where it has been replaced with a newly built standardised cemetery

Xayar

A cemetery in Xayar in 2017, and the same view in 2019

Teywizim

Teywizim cemetery in Hotan in 2018 and the same view in 2019



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