The People’s Republic of China has erased a number of village names that are culturally significant to the Uyghur people, replacing them with communist language, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.

The names of about 630 villages in the province of Xinjiang have been stripped of any references to Islam or uniquely Uyghur culture. Instead, they have been secularized into Mandarin and replaced with terminology that is ideologically consistent with the PRC.