Dokha

dokha English Etymology en Proper noun en former village township/Ganden county/Mêdog prefecture-level city/Nyingchi ar:Suf/Tibet c/China. en 2024-08-08 Muyi Xiao; Agnes Chang China’s Great Wall of Villages https://web.archive.org/web/20240811144104/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/10/world/asia/china-border-villages.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/10/world/asia/china-border-villages.html 11 August 2024 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. en Translations Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 多卡 See also en Duolonggang