Beijing [China], March 12 (ANI): Chinese government is usingUyghur-speaking government officials and other individuals to promote the ideaof cultural nourishment as a way of forcing Uyghurs to give up their ethnic andcultural identities and promote Chinese culture.

hiswas reflected in the address delivered by the Chinese President Xi Jinping atthe 2022 sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC), and its advisorybody, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) this week.

Slogansfrom an address to parliament by Xi — including “cultural nourishment” and the“consciousness of the whole of the Chinese nation” — were immediately promotedby pro-government representatives from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region(XUAR), drawing scorn from the Uyghur diaspora, reported the Radio Free Asia.

Dilnar Abdullah, an ethnic Uyghur dancer and a CPPCCrepresentative is being used by the Chinese authorities to promote the“consciousness of the unity of the Chinese nation”. She is also working toassimilate Chinese culture into school education in Xinjiang.

This is an old and familiar tactic used by the Chinesegovernment to promote the adoption of Chinese culture in Xinjiang. Statementsby Ilshat Hassan Kokbore, U.S.-based vice chairman of the Executive Committeeof the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) tell the same story.

“TheChinese government uses them, so of course, they champion ethnic unity,” hesaid. “What they’re calling cultural nourishment here is assimilation by meansof Chinese culture.”

SomeUyghurs have become a puppet for the Chinese regime. They have becomegovernment mouthpieces. Kokbore called Dilnar and the other Chinese governmentappointees “puppets”.

Wecan say she is a tool of theirs. If they tell her to do something, she does it.In this way, the Chinese government can say they’re doing things that Uyghursthemselves want,” he added.

Foryears, Chinese authorities have subjected Uyghurs and other Turkic minoritiesin Xinjiang to arbitrary arrests and detentions in internment camps, physicalabuse, and restrictions on their religious practices and culture in what theUnited States and legislatures of several other Western countries say amountsto genocide and crimes against humanity. (ANI)

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