Kizil massacre

Kizil massacre
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

• List of massacres in China

References

1. 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.
2. 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.