Uyghurs mark 28 years since Ghulja violence, condemn ongoing repression

FILE - Uyghur children play while their relatives rest outside their house, decorated with Chinese lanterns and barbed wire at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region on Sept 20, 2018. FILE - A car drives by a sign reading 'Welcome to the Hotan Unity New Village' in China's Xinjiang region on Sept. 21, 2018. Authorities have been changing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs to reflect the ruling Communist Party's ideology.

The first week of February is marked by grief for Zubayra Shamseden not only because she lost loved ones nearly three decades ago, she says, but because China’s repressive policies toward Uyghurs continue.