A new photo opportunity with the CCP for the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who failed to confront the regime on the Uyghurs’ cultural genocide.
Cultural Genocide
Genocide in Southern Mongolia: The Return of a Buried History
The Cultural Revolution was a genocidal time in what China calls Inner Mongolia. Today, it’s a cultural genocide.
The World is Risking a Uyghur Srebrenica
Three decades ago, a physical genocide was committed in the heart of Europe amid international indifference. In China, a cultural genocide is still being perpetrated amid the same international indifference.
International Mother Language Day: An Appeal for Uyghur Language by the Netherlands’ “Lonely Uyghur”
The “Lonely Uyghur” protester, well-known to “Bitter Winter” readers, celebrates in his own way the day established to protect endangered languages.
Winter School Break: China Prevents Tibetan Children from Studying Tibetan Language
Private lessons to improve the students’ skills in Tibetan have now been forbidden in favor of vacation homework in Mandarin and the study of Xi Jinping’s thought.
Words Used for Cultural Genocide: How “Northern Frontier” Is Replacing “Inner Mongolia”
They are starting with adjectives. “Mongolian culture” becomes mandatorily “Northern Frontier culture.”
The Sorrow of Uyghur Exile: A New Anthology
An anthology of poetry by Aziz Isa Elkun is published in Turkish. It is much more than a literary event: it calls fellow Turkic peoples to support the victims of a genocide.
How China’s Boarding Schools in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Are Erasing a People’s Identity: A Uyghur View
The Chinese regime is perpetrating the cultural genocide of a generation by weaponizing education. The state of the matter after ten years of persecution.
Golog, Qinghai: After 30 Years, a Prestigious Tibetan School Is Liquidated
The Jigme Gyaltsen Nationalities Vocational High School was praised even by Communist authorities. But that it preserved Tibetan culture could not be tolerated.
How “Two-Stringed Lute” Became “Red Flag”: China Changed Names of Hundreds of Uyghur Villages
A new report documents a subtle tool of cultural genocide: erasing the village names referring to Uyghur culture and religion.