Live from Kashgar! See the Uyghurs sing and dance

February 14, 2024 | Radio Free Asia | By Gulchehra Hoja for RFA Uyghur and Gao Feng for RFA Mandarin

Henryk Szadziewski, director of research at the Uyghur Human Rights Project, said CCTV’s New Year’s Gala and the commentary by Global Times editor Hu Xijin were meant to “tell the world that Chinese government policies targeting Uyghurs have been successful, that Uyghurs have been cleansed of their extremism.”

“And China believes that they have done it in some kind of humane way,” he said.

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