However, the report identified about 630 villages in the region whose names were changed for referencing Islam or Uyghur culture and history, HRW said. Words like "dutar," a traditional Uyghur ...

The report compared the names of 25,000 Xinjiang villages as listed by the National Bureau of Statistics of China between 2009 and 2023. Words like “dutar,” a traditional Uyghur string instrum ...