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Makit County
Makit County is a county in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. It contains an area of 10,927 km2 (4,219 sq mi). The Yarkand River passes through the county. The county is bordered to the north by Maralbexi County, to the east by Guma County (Pishan) in Hotan Prefecture, to the west by Yarkant County, and to the south by Kargilik County.
The name of the county is also transliterated from Uyghur as Markit, Mekit and Merket, and from Mandarin Chinese as Maigaiti (Mai-kai-t'i, Maikaiti).
In 1928, Makit County was created as part of Kashgar Circuit (喀什噶爾道).
In 2002, 240 Tajik (China) households displaced from Taxkorgan reclaimed a desert village in the county.
In early 2011, a Uyghur butcher in Makit County and six friends were arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a Han Chinese prostitute.
As part of the policies of Chen Quanguo, 61 convenience police stations were being built in the county in 2016.
In August 2018, a 10-year-old boy whose parents were detained in the Xinjiang internment camps drowned in the Zerepshan River.
According to an anonymous Uyghur local government employee quoted in a Radio Free Asia article, during Ramadan 2020 (April 23 to May 23), residents of the county were told they could face punishment for fasting including being sent to an internment camp.
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Makit County
Makit County is a county in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. It contains an area of 10,927 km2 (4,219 sq mi). The Yarkand River passes through the county. The county is bordered to the north by Maralbexi County, to the east by Guma County (Pishan) in Hotan Prefecture, to the west by Yarkant County, and to the south by Kargilik County.
The name of the county is also transliterated from Uyghur as Markit, Mekit and Merket, and from Mandarin Chinese as Maigaiti (Mai-kai-t'i, Maikaiti).
In 1928, Makit County was created as part of Kashgar Circuit (喀什噶爾道).
In 2002, 240 Tajik (China) households displaced from Taxkorgan reclaimed a desert village in the county.
In early 2011, a Uyghur butcher in Makit County and six friends were arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a Han Chinese prostitute.
As part of the policies of Chen Quanguo, 61 convenience police stations were being built in the county in 2016.
In August 2018, a 10-year-old boy whose parents were detained in the Xinjiang internment camps drowned in the Zerepshan River.
According to an anonymous Uyghur local government employee quoted in a Radio Free Asia article, during Ramadan 2020 (April 23 to May 23), residents of the county were told they could face punishment for fasting including being sent to an internment camp.