Meaning of Alaqagha | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A town in Kuqa, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
2. A village in Alaqagha, Kuqa, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
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Examples

“On 29 April 1996, a group of dozen armed men attacked the houses of Qavul Toqa, a member of the CPPCC National Committee and Deputy to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region People's Congress at Qunas village of Alaqagha Township in Kuqa County.”

“In a recent example that demonstrates both of these tendencies, Radio Free Asia reported on 20 May that in Alaqagha township near Aksu, authorities had violently suppressed a protest against the detention of women and schoolgirls for wearing the hijab or headscarves, killing up to four protestors.”

“A Washington Post team was turned away at the one of several checkpoints around Elishku, as army trucks rumbled past, and was subsequently detained for several hours by informers, police and Communist Party officials for reporting from villages in the surrounding district of Shache county; the following day, the team was again detained in Alaqagha in Kuqa county, and ultimately deported from the region from the nearest airport.”

“While the Chinese state and international media were probing into the nuts and the bolts of terrorist onslaught on innocent, mostly elderly, citizens of Urumqi, in the same week suppression of civil rights demonstrations by peaceful Uyghur protesters at Alaqagha township in Aksu prefecture's Kucha county went almost unnoticed.”

“Uighur Muslim women visit a market in Alaqagha in western China's Xinjiang province in July.”

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