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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.
The 1989 Ürümqi unrest, also known as the 19 May riots in Ürümqi (Chinese: 乌鲁木齐五·一九骚乱) took place in the city of Ürümqi in May 1989, which began with Muslim protesters marched and finally escalated into violent attack [1] against a Xinjiang Chinese Communist Party (CCP) office tower at People's Square on 19 May 1989.
After Xinjiang was converted into a province by the Qing, the provincialization and reconstruction programs initiated by the Qing resulted in the Chinese government helping Uyghurs migrate from southern Xinjiang to other areas of the province, like the area between Qitai and the capital, formerly nearly completely inhabited by Han Chinese, and ...
Gongyuan Street (the location of the attack) After the market blasts, Ürümqi entered a state of enhanced security with each school, university, residential area entrance, avenue, and vital junction having concrete barricades set up in order to defend against similar ramming attacks by vehicles.
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 ...
U.S. President Donald Trump stripped Secret Service protection on Tuesday from his former national security adviser, John Bolton, who became the target of an alleged Iranian murder plot after he ...
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Continuing tensions in Xinjiang have been a source of terrorism in China.Conflicts over Uyghur cultural aspirations resurfaced during the 1960s. In early February 1997, the execution of 30 suspected separatists [3] who had been involved in the organization of Meshrep [4] during Ramadan resulted in large demonstrations, culminating in the Gulja incident on February 5, where at least 9 ...