Arakan News Agency
Chinese authorities have banned Uyghurs in occupied East Turkistan from using their language in schools.
According to the Daily Mail newspaper, the move was announced in a statement on the site of the Hotan area in Xinjiang, saying: The use of the Uyghur language is prohibited from pre-school to high school, claiming that the move aims to promote the national language Common, even the signs located around the school, must be in the official language, ie Mandarin.
The new step, which will come into effect next September with the start of the new semester, comes after the Chinese authorities imposed severe restrictions on Muslims in the region during the past period, and prevented them from fasting during the month of Ramadan.
“Even the Uyghur textbooks and Chinese textbooks will be replaced by internal Chinese,” An Uyguri told in the a radio station.
“On the face of it, over the past few years, the Communist Party has encouraged bilingual education, but in reality the real aim of this ban seems to be to impose Mandarin, which will eliminate Long-term, Uyghur language, and thus weaken their identity as a unified political force. ”
The number of Uyghur Muslims is estimated at more than 30 million, according to local estimates.
