Kizil massacre
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Kizil massacre | |
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Location | Near Kashgar, Xinjiang |
Date | June 1933 |
Target | Chinese Muslim soldiers and Han Chinese civilians |
Deaths | 800 |
Perpetrators | Uighur and Kirghiz fighters under the command of Osman Ali and Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra |
The Kizil massacre (Chinese: 克孜爾大屠殺) occurred in June 1933, when Uighur and Kyrgyz Turkic fighters broke their agreement not to attack a column of retreating Hui Chinese soldiers and civilians from Yarkand New City on their way to Kashgar.[1] An estimated 800 Chinese Muslim and Chinese civilians were killed by Turkic Muslim fighters.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Andrew D. W. Forbes (1986). Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911–1949. Cambridge, England: CUP Archive. p. 88. ISBN 0-521-25514-7. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
- ^ Lars-Erik Nyman (1977). Great Britain and Chinese, Russian and Japanese interests in Sinkiang, 1918–1934. Stockholm: Esselte studium. pp. 111 & 113. ISBN 91-24-27287-6. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
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