Xinjiang's disappearing graveyards and mosques

Satellite images show evidence of lost cemeteries and demolished sacred sites in China's northwestern region

July 2, 2015

May 13, 2019

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Aksu cemetery

Local authorities turned an enormous graveyard where prominent Uighur poet Lutpulla Mutellip was buried into "Happiness Park", supplanting old burial grounds with fake pandas, a children's ride, and a man-made lake