Uygur: 'I can't find my grandpa's grave' | An inside look into Xinjiang's disappearing Muslim graves

"I cannot find my grandfather's #grave," said Sadir Yasin, standing in the midst of an undulating graveyard riddled with crevices. It's been several years since Yasin and his parents stood across the street of the deserted slope to talk to their deceased loved one. "I was 10 years old when my grandfather passed away in 2010. Back then, I would come here with my family to visit my grandfather's grave, but a couple of years later, we could no longer find it," Yasin told us.

He's not alone in the village of Yakruyk, in Uqturpan – a county under southern #Xinjiang's Aksu Prefecture and only 70 kilometers from China's border with Kyrgyzstan.

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