Kizil massacre
| Kizil massacre | |
|---|---|
| Location | near Kashgar, Xinjiang |
| Date | June 1933 |
| Target | Han Chinese and Chinese Muslim civilians |
| Deaths | 800 |
| Perpetrators | Uighur and Kirghiz fighters under the command of Osman Ali and Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra of the First East Turkestan Republic |
The Kizil massacre occurred in June 1933, when Uighur and Kirghiz Turkic fighters of the First East Turkestan Republic broke their agreement not to attack a column of retreating Han Chinese and Chinese Muslim 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, who paid no attention to religion during the attack.[2]
Chinese Muslim fighters slaughtered several thousand Uyghur civilians at the Battle of Kashgar (1934) the following year in revenge for the Kizil massacre.
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. p. 111. ISBN 91-24-27287-6. Retrieved 2010-06-28.