In 1930, when the Mir of Hunza's representatives were in Kashgar to pay the annual tribute, the chief official in that town, the Tao-yin Ma Shao-wu, declared that the Mir had no rights whatsoever either in Raskam or in the Taghdumbash Pamir.
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He announced that the Chinese would now tax the Mil's flocks if they were gazed north of the main watershed, and, further,
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he told the Mir's representatives that the Hunza men could only continue to cultivate their plots in Raskam if they accepted the fact that they were Chinese citizens.
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The Chinese subsequently emphasised this point by detaining two Hunza men who were travelling to Kashgar with British Indian passports,
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and only letting them go on their way after they had exchanged these documents for Chinese passports & paid a fee for the issue of the new papers.
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