News in Brief (Uyghur News Recap: Jan. 5 – 12, 2024)

January 14, 2024 | Voice of America | By Kasim Kashgar

Rights activists and experts are criticizing China’s recent law on ethnic embedding in Xinjiang as the first step in legalizing China’s assimilation policies in the region. The new regulation actively encourages comprehensive embedding of other ethnic groups in Xinjiang into Han Chinese culture, utilizing measures such as economic subsidies and neighborhood optimization with gradual ethnic mingling. Experts shed light on the historical roots and impact of the new regulation.

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“So-called ‘fostering a sense of national identity from kindergarten’ means intensifying China’s push on ethnic assimilation, promoting and imposing Han Chinese culture onto other nations, eradicating different ethnic and national identity of Uyghurs and other Turkic people in Ghulja, East Turkistan.”

— Zubayra Shamseden, Chinese Outreach Coordinator at the Washington-based Uyghur Human Rights Project and vice president of Munich-based World Uyghur Congress.

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