Aykol

— On August 7, on the eve of the Eid holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, police in Aykol township, Aksu prefecture, reportedly sought to prevent residents from another village from engaging in cross-village worship,¹⁰⁵ and detained several Uyghur men for engaging in "illegal religious activities."

— August 2013 was a particularly violent month. On the eve of the Id al Fitr festival that signifies the end of Ramadan, clashes between police and local Uyghurs in Kargilik (Yecheng) County, which lies between Kashgar and Khotan, left between fifteen and twenty-two Uyghurs dead and there was further violence that month at Aykol, a township in Poskam (Zepu) County to the south of Yarkand, also at the end of Ramadan.