Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Yarkant County" in English language version.
When a Chinaman is called back to his own home in China proper, or a Chinese soldier has served his time in Turkestan and has to return to his native city of Pekin and Shanghai, he either leaves his temporary wife behind to shift for herself, or he sells her to a friend. If he has a family he takes the boys with him.
According to Xinhua, it began at a government building in Yarkant County and spread to surrounding streets, where assailants attacked passers-by and set cars on fire.
An ancient Muslim town, Yarkand is a cultural cradle for the Uighurs, who have experienced mass detentions.
The riots began on Monday morning when groups of Uyghurs attacked a police station and government offices in Elishku township, prompting police to fire at the crowd, leaving many dead or wounded, local officials told RFA's Uyghur Service.{...}"China does not want the world to know what occurred on Monday in Elishku Township," he said. "That state media could label the killing of dozens of people as in line with the law reflects the poor regard the state has for its own laws and judicial process."{...}Aytullah Tursun, head of No. 16 village, also one of the villages affected by the clashes, said the police killing of a family of five in Beshkent village near Elishku township on July 18 could have triggered the riots.
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A 4.8-magnitude earthquake hits Yarkant County of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 5:54 p.m. Friday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
According to a survey in early 2020, with a population of 3,540, the Aybagh Village in Gulbagh Town, Shache (Yarkant) County, Kashgar Prefecture,
面积12平方千米，人口3.8万，其中维吾尔族占93.2％，
2010年第六次人口普查，莎车县常住总人口762385人，其中：莎车镇128145人，恰热克镇29946人，艾力西湖镇36793人，荒地镇34658人，阿瓦提镇25119人，伯什坎特镇39243人，依盖尔其镇27038人，古勒巴格乡22255人，阿热勒乡17398人，恰尔巴格乡12972人，托木吾斯塘乡29579人，英吾斯塘乡10582人，乌达力克乡31525人，阿热斯兰巴格乡20018人，孜热甫普夏提乡10504人，亚喀艾日克乡10204人，喀群乡18749人，藿什拉甫乡17351人，达木斯乡9678人，米夏乡32419人，伊什库力乡29930人，拍克其乡19809人，塔尕尔其乡34554人，阔什艾日克乡16413人，墩巴格乡17579人，阿拉买提乡23583人，阿扎特巴格乡15846人，巴格阿瓦提乡16951人，喀拉苏乡14756人，喀什监狱5506人，县良种场1988人，优质果树苗木繁育基地270人，国营二林场224人，园艺场186人，蚕种场284人，渔苗场30人，农科院莎车农业试验站300人。
