Tomosteng
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From Uyghur تومئۆستەڭ (tom'östeng).
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Tomosteng
- A town in Yarkant, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China, formerly a township
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tomosteng.
- 2013 October 24, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Uyghurs Killed in Police Raids Part of ‘Separatist Bomb Plot’”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia[1], archived from the original on October 15, 2015:
- “The police carried out five bloody raids in the course of three weeks—two separate ones in Odanliq, two in Tomosteng and one in Yingwusitang township,” he said.[...]The source could not provide the dates of the two Tomosteng raids or information about which raids the other five suspects were killed in by police.
- 2017 April 26, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Village Crackdown on ‘Illegal Religious Activities’ Nets Dozens of Uyghurs”, in Mamatjan Juma, Alim Seytoff, transl., Radio Free Asia[2], archived from the original on 17 August 2017:
- At least 52 Uyghurs in Tomosteng township’s No. 2 village, in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture’s Yarkand (Shache) county, have been arrested under related charges, the 140-household village’s party secretary Ablet Hekim told RFA’s Uyghur Service in an interview earlier this week.[...]
RFA obtained confirmation of the 52 arrests in No. 2 village while investigating a report published last week by exile Uyghur website Hoylam.com, which claimed that a 73-year-old Uyghur woman named Helchihan Hoshur was detained after making disparaging comments about Chinese policies during a “self-criticism” session in Tomosteng township’s neighboring No. 7 village.
Party secretaries from three different villages in Tomosteng township, including No. 3 village chief Qembernisa Hashim, were unable to confirm Hoshur’s detention.
- 2018 February 7, Shohret Hoshur, Alim Seytoff, Joshua Lipes, “Mandatory Indoctrination Classes For Unemployed Uyghurs in Xinjiang”, in Radio Free Asia[3], archived from the original on February 8, 2018:
- But an officer from the Tomosteng township police station, in Kashgar’s Yarkand (Shache) county, recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service that authorities in the region are additionally requiring idle Uyghurs who are not suspected of committing any offenses to attend political indoctrination classes.[...]
In Tomosteng, “150-200” residents attend classes, he said, adding that the number fluctuates.[...]
Another officer from Tomosteng told RFA that the indoctrination classes are held at local Family Committee offices or Cultural Centers.[...]
The officers told RFA that on the morning of Jan. 28, a Uyghur named Tursun Ablet had hanged himself at his home in Tomosteng’s No. 1 village because his class administrator had threatened to sentence him to a re-education camp for up to five years if he didn’t learn how to recite China’s national anthem in Mandarin Chinese instead of his native Uyghur language by the following day.