FILE - A mural showing Uighur and Han Chinese men and women carrying the national flag of China decorates the wall of a home at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region on Sept. 20, 2018. Authorities in China's western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist Party's ideology, as part of an attack on their cultural identity, according to a report released Wednesday, June 19, 2024, by Human Rights Watch. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
FILE - Uyghur children play at a square where a propaganda poster showing Han Chinese and Uyghurs posing together in a photograph with the words "Hotan City Unity New Village Unity Square" on display, at the Unity New Village in Hotan in western China's Xinjiang region on Sept. 20, 2018. Authorities in China's western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist Party's ideology, as part of an attack on their cultural identity, according to a report released Wednesday, June 19, 2024, by Human Rights Watch. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
FILE - A car drives through a desert where a signboard which reads "Welcome to the Hotan Unity New Village" is seen on display in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region on Sept. 21, 2018. Authorities in China's western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist Party's ideology, as part of an attack on their cultural identity, according to a report released Wednesday, June 19, 2024 by Human Rights Watch. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
FILE - Muzitohtahon, center, an Uyghur farmer in his early seventies who moved to the village three years ago, said he is no longer a Muslim, stands outside a convenience store at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region on Sept. 21, 2018. Authorities in China's western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist Party's ideology, as part of an attack on their cultural identity, according to a report released Wednesday, June 19, 2024, by Human Rights Watch. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
FILE - A Uyghur woman works at her food stand while her children play in a resting place nearby at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region on Sept 20, 2018. Authorities in China's western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist Party's ideology, as part of an attack on their cultural identity, according to a report released Wednesday, June 19, 2024 by Human Rights Watch. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
FILE - Uyghur children play while their relatives rest outside their house, decorated with Chinese lanterns and barbed wire at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region on Sept 20, 2018. Authorities in China's western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist Party's ideology, as part of an attack on their cultural identity, according to a report released Wednesday, June 19, 2024, by Human Rights Watch. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)