Citations:Urchi

English citations of Urchi

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2018 April 19, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Use ‘Burial Management Centers’ to Subvert Uyghur Funeral Traditions”, in Alim Seytoff, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[1], archived from the original on April 19, 2018‎^[2]:
The head of Urchi township in Hotan’s Qaraqash (Moyu) county said she had heard “about a month ago” that a burial management center had been constructed and would be “opening soon.”
2018 May 10, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Jail Uyghur Imam Who Took Son to Unsanctioned Religious School”, in Radio Free Asia‎^[3], archived from the original on May 10, 2018‎^[4]:
Abduheber Ahmet, the imam of the Dongbagh Mosque in Urchi township, in Hotan’s Qaraqash (Moyu) county, was initially detained in May 2017 and handed a five and a half-year jail term a month later, the ruling Chinese Communist Party secretary of Urchi township told RFA’s Uyghur Service.

2001, John Charles Griffiths, Afghanistan: A History of Conflict‎^[5], London: Carlton Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 140:
There is evidence both in situ and in documentary sources to suggest that it was probably sacked and burned to the ground towards the end of the second century BC by a tribe of nomads, the Urchi, from higher up the Oxus.