Then and now: China's destruction of Uighur burial grounds
by CNES / Airbus DS / Earthrise / AFP from World news | The Guardian on (#4S5DE)
China is destroying Uighur graveyards where generations of families have been laid to rest, leaving behind human bones and broken tombs in what activists call an effort to eradicate the ethnic group's identity in Xinjiang
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.
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