Citations:Dokha

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English citations of Dokha

  • 2024 August 8, Muyi Xiao, Agnes Chang, “China’s Great Wall of Villages”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 August 2024[2]:
    A documentary aired by the state broadcaster, CCTV, showed how a Chinese official went to Dokha, a village in Tibet, to persuade residents to move to a new village called Duolonggang, 10 miles from Arunachal Pradesh. / He encountered some resistance. Tenzin, a lay Buddhist practitioner, insisted that Dokha’s land was fertile, producing oranges and other fruit. “We can feed ourselves without government subsidies,” he said. / The official criticized Tenzin for “using his age and religious status to obstruct relocation,” according to a state media article cited by Human Rights Watch in a report. / In the end, all 143 residents of Dokha moved to the new settlement.