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Uyghur gravesites in China wiped off the map

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https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/01/02/china-uyghur-graves-rivers-newday-pkg-vpx.cnn

Uyghur gravesites in China wiped off the map

More than 100 Uyghur gravesites and tombs in China appear to have been destroyed. CNN's Matt Rivers reports.

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https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/01/02/china-uyghur-graves-rivers-newday-pkg-vpx.cnn

Uyghur gravesites in China wiped off the map

More than 100 Uyghur gravesites and tombs in China appear to have been destroyed. CNN's Matt Rivers reports.

 you have finally woken up I'm going to share this with everyone

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your better off becoming a journalist

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i'm more than a journalist now Smile

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Why would China do that?

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 I think because China wants Islam & their race eliminated from history

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the graves are thousands of years old

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https://thehill.com/policy/international/476581-satellite-images-show-thousands-of-uyghur-graves-demolished-by-chinese

China's government has reportedly been destroying Uyghur cemeteries in the country's Xinjiang province, affecting thousands of graves and in some cases leaving the sites strewn with human remains.

CNN reported Thursday that at least 100 cemeteries have been demolished by Chinese authorities since 2014, with much of the destruction occurring between 2017 and 2019. Chinese officials did not deny that the demolitions had occurred, with at least one official notice pointing to a need to relocate the cemetery for city planning purposes, according to the cable news network.

Agence France-Presse separately reported that some graveyards were covered with human bones, raising questions about the treatment of Uyghur gravesites by Chinese workers and officials.

"It's akin for an American to see Arlington cemetery razed and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier dug up and paved over," Rian Thum, an associate history professor at Loyola University in New Orleans, told CNN.

An official for China's foreign ministry denied any mistreatment.
"Governments ... in Xinjiang fully respect and guarantee the freedom of all ethnic groups ... to choose cemeteries, and funeral and burial methods," the person told CNN.

China has faced growing international criticism for its treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority, with the State Department saying it's possible that as many as 2 million Uyghurs are being held in prison camps.

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https://www.uyghurism.com/post/destroyed-uyghur-cemeteries-in-khotan

 

China Destroyed a One Thousand Years Old Cemetery Along With Others in XUAR in March 2019

China Destroyed a One Thousand Years Old Cemetery Along With Others in XUAR in March 2019
Updated: Jul 1, 2019

Even the dead in their graves couldn't get away from China's persecution in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

Satellite imagery of Sultanim Cemetery in Hotan during it's destruction.

Sultanim Cemetery has over 1,000 year long history. Muslim King Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan of Kashgar Kara-Khanid Khanate (999–1211) conquered Hotan (Buddhist Kingdom Udun at that time) and spread Islam in Hotan around 960 AD. During the war, four Kara-khan commanders, including prince Sultan Kilich Khan, were killed and Muslims buried them in this location. Since then, this cemetery was named Sultanim Maziri (my sultan shrine) and became the most important cemetery that Uyghur Muslims worshiped for over 1,000 years. In the center of the cemetery, the four commanders’ graves were still there until China completely bulldozed the entire cemetery. Many religious leaders, scholars and other important people in Hotan’s far and recent history was buried in this cemetery.

-Abdul Hemid Abdullah (Kari Hajim) Uyghur scholar who left Hotan in 2014; now living in Istanbul Turkey. Interviewed by Bahram K Sintash in June 2019.

Satellite imagery of Tawrizim Cemetery in Hotan during its destruction.
Both Tawrizim and Sultanim Cemeteries are not located in a place that needs to be moved, they have been there for many hundreds of years.

Some of the most well-known Uyghur scholars' graves in Tawrizim Cemetery. The most famous Uyghur poet Rozi Sayit's grave is pictured on the left and one of the most respected Uyghur religious scholar Abdulhamid Yusufi's grave is pictured on the right. Pictures were taken in 2009.

 

 

Graves in the one thousand years old Sultanim Cemetery in Hotan

 

 

 

Satellite imagery comparison of Imam Asim Maziri (shrine)

“The images of Imam Asim in ruins are quite shocking. For the more devoted pilgrims, they would be heartbreaking,” said Rian Thum, a historian of Islam at the University of Nottingham.
Before the crackdown, pilgrims also trekked 70km into the desert to reach the Jafari Sadiq shrine, honouring Jafari Sadiq, a holy warrior whose spirit was believed to have travelled to Xinjiang to help bring Islam to the region. The tomb, on a precipice in the desert, appears to have been torn down in March 2018. Buildings for housing the pilgrims in a nearby complex are also gone, according to satellite imagery captured this month.
“Nothing could say more clearly to the Uighurs that the Chinese state wants to uproot their culture and break their connection to the land than the desecration of their ancestors’ graves, the sacred shrines that are the landmarks of Uighur history,” source: Guardian

 

Satellite imagery comparison of Jafari Sadiq Maziri (shrine)
“If one were to remove these … shrines, the Uighur people would lose contact with earth. They would no longer have a personal, cultural, and spiritual history. After a few years we would not have a memory of why we live here or where we belong.”
- Rahila Dawut said in an interview in 2012.

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It's funny that leftist don't talk about yellow supremacy. The Chinese has wiped out white people living in China in the ancient world.

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