Video shows destruction of Uyghur home

Jélil Ömer, a Uyghur sheepherder in Ghulja County in East Turkistan, posted a video online depicting what he said was the destruction of his family’s home to make room for a local energy company’s operations.
The minute-long video pans to the right to show a number of structures that had been leveled as a dog barks in the background. It then tracks to show household items like TVs littered on the ground.
“Look at the TVs and blankets they threw outside,” the man says in the video, which was posted on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, last month. “While we are not at home, they have demolished the homes.”
Local officials contacted by RFA Uyghur confirmed that families in the area have been relocated to make room for the energy company’s operations, including the development of its mine.
A security official said more than 5,000 family homes in Qarayaghach village were destroyed in 2018 and the families offered resettlement in Chipar Térek in Qash village.
But families have resisted the relocation, saying the village is too remote, lacks basic amenities and isn’t conducive to farming.
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