China plans to build a large museum complex in Kochar to justify its occupation

While China is demolishing historical buildings, mosques, and schools in East Turkistan, it is simultaneously building museums and institutions that distort the history of East Turkistan and the Uyghurs. It recently announced its plan to establish the largest museum complex in East Turkistan in the city of Kochar.

According to a report by Tangritag Network, a Chinese propaganda outlet in East Turkistan, the Chinese Cultural Heritage Administration recently approved the "Project to Establish a Demonstration Zone for the Protection and Utilization of the Silk Road National Cultural Heritage in Kochar." The report stated that a demonstration zone for the utilization of cultural heritage will be established in the city of Kochar.

Through this project, China plans to build the largest museum complex in East Turkistan in the city of Kochar. It will also create tourist sites with themes that appeal to China's attempts to distort the history of its occupation, such as "Mutual Exchanges between Chinese and Western Cultures" and "A Thousand Years of Kochar - The Fusion of Multiculturalism." According to the report, the project will be completed in early 2027.

Although China has established numerous museums and research institutions in East Turkistan in recent years, it is actually using them to conceal its occupation of East Turkistan and distort and obscure Uyghur history. For example, last year, China opened the Kuchar Underground Cemetery Museum, distorting the structural characteristics and cultural elements of the ancient cemetery in a manner that contradicts scientific facts. It promoted brazen claims such as "East Turkistan has been under Chinese rule since ancient times," "that Uyghur culture is in fact linked and intertwined with Chinese culture," and "that throughout history, various Chinese ethnic groups have lived together in different parts of East Turkistan, not Turkic peoples like the Uyghurs."

The MUSE Project Gold Award, jointly awarded by the International Awards Association and the American Federation of Museums, came under fire last year for being awarded to the Kuchar Underground Cemetery Museum, which China opened. China promoted this as a special achievement.