The Kizil massacre () 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
Yarkant County,, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency also Shache County,, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency also SASM/GNC ro ...
New City on their way to
Kashgar
Kashgar () or Kashi ( zh, c=喀什) is a city in the Tarim Basin region of southern Xinjiang, China. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, located near the country's border with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. For over 2,000 years, Kashgar ...
. An estimated 800 Chinese Muslim and Chinese civilians were killed by Turkic Muslim fighters.
See also
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List of massacres in China
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in China. The massacres are grouped for different time periods.
This includes British Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, as well as Portuguese Macau and the Macau Spe ...
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