Ghulja incident
1997 violent event in the Uyghur-Han conflict in Xinjiang / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the 1997 Ghulja incident. For the Yining incident which led to the abolition of the East Turkestan Republic, see Abolition of the East Turkestan Republic.
The Ghulja, Gulja,[3][4] or Yining incident (Chinese: 伊寧事件, Yīníng Shìjiàn), also referred to as the Ghulja Massacre,[5] was the culmination of the Ghulja protests of 1997, a series of demonstrations[6] in the city of Yining—known as Ghulja in Uyghur—in the Xinjiang autonomous region of China.
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Part of the Xinjiang conflict | |||
Date | February 3, 1997; 27 years ago (1997-02-03) February 3–5, 1997 | ||
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Goals | Uyghur independence | ||
Methods | Protests, rioting | ||
Resulted in | Crowd dispersed by police[1] | ||
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Injuries | 198 | ||
Arrested | 1,600+ (dissident claims) |
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