In both the region capital of Urumqi and ... parts of the city where homes and other buildings were constructed in the traditional Uighur style has been torn down and rebuilt over the past decade.

"It was so scary walking in the street," she says of Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital. "Me and my dad both ... I could briefly pass myself off as Uighur Such views on Xinjiang abound in mainland China.

At least 1 million Uighurs have been interned since 2017 in more than 85 identified camps within Xinjiang-- an autonomous region in Northwest China, according to Western reports. Most of the ...