Kawak

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Borrowed from Uyghur كاۋاك (kawak).

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Kawak

  1. A township in Karakax, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • 2020 February, Adrian Zenz, “The Karakax List: Dissecting the Anatomy of Beijing’s Internment Drive in Xinjiang”, in Journal of Political Risk[1], volume 8, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 February 2020:
      Finally, a spreadsheet from Kawak (喀瓦克) Township in the northern part of Karakax County that lists 1,249 persons in detention and re-education shows that 93.2 percent of persons who are classified as “untrustworthy” are either in detention or re-education.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kawak.

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