Ghulja incident

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.

Ghulja Incident
Part of the Xinjiang conflict
DateFebruary 3, 1997; 27 years ago (1997-02-03)
February 3–5, 1997
Location
Yining, Xinjiang, China
Caused by
  • Ethnic tensions
  • USSR Collapse Shockwave
GoalsMore Autonomy
MethodsProtests, rioting
Resulted inCrowd dispersed by police[1]
Parties
Casualties
Death(s)
  • 10 including a police officer (official reports)
  • ~200 (dissident claims)[2]
Injuries198
Arrested1,600+ (dissident claims)
Ghulja is the capital of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture

The Ghulja, Gulja,[3][4] or Yining incident (Chinese: 伊寧事件, Yīníng Shìjiàn) was the culmination of the Ghulja protests of 1997, a series of demonstrations[5] in the city of Yining—known as Ghulja in Uyghur—in the Xinjiang autonomous region of China.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference irish was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Uyghurs still push for accountability 25 years after Ghulja Massacre, Radio Free Asia, February 13, 2022
  3. ^ "China: Remember the Gulja Massacre? China's Crackdown on Peaceful Protesters". Amnesty International. February 2007.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Gulja Massacre was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Xinjiang to Intensify Crackdown on Separatists", China Daily, October 25, 2001.