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

October 09, 2019

Guardian

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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.

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

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.

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

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

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