Crackdown on Uyghur textbooks for their content
- According to the film ‘The Plot Inside the Textbooks,’ Uyghur textbook compilers commited crimes such as
30 per cent was the upper limit for minority-language sources; the texts were 60 per cent Uighur materials. In 200,000 words of text, “China” appeared only four times.
- The film said there were 88 individuals who “with malicious intent” had compiled and edited school textbooks in Uighur.
# Sources
https://twitter.com/cdcshepherd/status/1172107779953348608 https://www.ft.com/content/48508182-d426-11e9-8367-807ebd53ab77