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A series of violent riots over several days broke out on 5 July 2009 in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in northwestern China.The first day's rioting, which involved at least 1,000 Uyghurs, [12] began as a protest, but escalated into violent attacks that mainly targeted Han people.
In September 2009, Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China, experienced a period of unrest in the aftermath of the July 2009 Ürümqi riots. Late August and early September saw a series of syringe attacks on civilians. In response to the attacks, thousands of residents held protests for ...
The ongoing Xinjiang conflict [110] [111] includes the 2007 Xinjiang raid, [112] a thwarted 2008 suicide-bombing attempt on a China Southern Airlines flight, [113] the 2008 Kashgar attack which killed 16 police officers four days before the Beijing Olympics, [114] [115] the August 2009 syringe attacks, [116] the 2011 Hotan attack, [117] the ...
This article's lead section may be too long. Please read the length guidelines and help move details into the article's body. (January 2025) Persecution of Uyghurs in China Part of the Xinjiang conflict Detainees listening to speeches in a camp in Lop County, Xinjiang, April 2017 Xinjiang, highlighted red, shown within China Location Xinjiang, China Date 2014–present Target Uyghurs, Kazakhs ...
The best-known musical form of the Uyghur people is the muqam, a complex suite of 12 sections related to Uzbek and Tajik forms. These complex symphonies vary wildly between suites in the same muqam, and are built on a 7-note scale.
YouTube has reinstated a channel that belongs to a group documenting abuse against the Uyghur population in China's Xinjiang region. The channel , Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights, is owned by ...
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), [12] is an ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
The Shaoguan incident (Chinese: 韶关事件) was a civil disturbance which took place overnight on 25–26 June 2009 in Guangdong, China.A violent dispute erupted between migrant Uyghurs and Han Chinese workers at a toy factory in Shaoguan as a result of false allegations of the sexual assault of a Han Chinese woman.