VOA: Are you able to see the Uyghur people and Han Chinese co-existing peacefully in the future? Isa: The Chinese Communist Party has already done so much brainwashing of the Chinese people ...

This is a symbolic connection that the authorities want to sever: Solidarity between Han and Uyghur is frightening for the Party. [Source] One Uyghur exile in California, with family members in ...

and his aimless and increasingly haphazard wanderings around Urumqi's misty backstreets in search of a place to sleep bring him into a string of bizarre encounters with his fellow Uyghur and Han ...

Director of Global Advocacy at World Uyghur Congress, told VOA by phone. According to Arkin, other campaigns that Beijing has initiated to better assimilate the Uyghurs in the Han Chinese majority ...

My mother in China tells me about a new Xinjiang bakery near our place. Each time she passes by, there are lines outside. Once she asked those queuing if the flavor is authentic. Xinjiang, after ...

“After the pandemic,” Han says, “many Uyghur restaurants were closed.” He saw an opportunity to make and share the food he desperately craved. In 2023, Han started a halal food delivery ...

November 24, 2023, marks the one-year anniversary of the deadly fire in Ürümqi in the Uyghur region, also known as East Turkestan, or Xinjiang in Chinese, that triggered waves of protests across China ...

In retaliation, the PRC has sent flocks of Han (Chinese) settlers into Xinjiang, hoping to suppress the Uyghur population. With a looming military presence in both Xinjiang and Tibet, the full ...

The Uighur population in the restive western Xinjiang province, are ethnically distinct from China’s majority Han population. Recent years have seen bloody clashes in the region, which the ...

“After the pandemic,” Han says, “many Uyghur restaurants were closed.” He saw an opportunity to make and share the food he desperately craved. In 2023, Han started a halal food delivery ...

At one point the Uyghur narrator imagines the murderous rage of a Han bystander and the page is filled with 215 consecutive repetitions of the word “chop”. Visceral and often disorientating ...