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On 24 November 2022, a fire broke out in a residential high-rise apartment building in a Uyghur -majority neighborhood in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China. Local authorities reported ten people, all Uyghurs, were dead and an additional nine were injured, [4][1][2][3] though some raised concerns of underreporting. [5][6] Journalists raised questions of ...
The Xinjiang conflict (Chinese: 新疆冲突, Pinyin: xīnjiāng chōngtú), also known as the East Turkistan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile), [13] is an ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
The Karamay fire (Chinese: 克拉玛依大火) of 8 December 1994 at the Friendship Theatre in Karamay, Xinjiang, China, was among the most notorious fires in China.Its notoriety derives partly from the fact that that the schoolchildren, who were entertaining visiting officials, were ordered to remain seated when the fire started to allow the visiting officials to walk out first.
The 61st Regiment Farm fire and stampede (Chinese: 61团场火灾) was a fire that occurred on 18 February 1977 at 20:15 Xinjiang Time in a public hall showing a movie. The direct cause of the fire was the regiment hesitating to dispose of the memorial wreaths of the late Mao Zedong for five months, and eventually the wreaths were ignited by a spinning top-like firecracker set off by a 12-year ...
Many of the victims are suspected to be part of Xinjiang’s Muslim minority. China’s state-run news channel Xinhua News Agency stated the fire broke out around 7:49 p.m. on Thursday evening ...
Karamay. Karamay (also spelled Karamai) is a prefecture-level city in the north of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. It is surrounded on all sides by Tacheng Prefecture. The name of the city comes from the Uyghur language and means "black oil", referring to the oil fields near the city.
Since 2014, the Chinese government has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized as persecution or as genocide. There have been reports of mass arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, mass surveillance, cultural and religious persecution ...
Ürümqi[ a ] is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. [ 5 ] With a census population of 4 million in 2020, Ürümqi is the second-largest city in China's northwestern interior after Xi'an, as well as the largest in Central Asia in terms of population.