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The bombings were described in the New York Times as the deadliest mass murder in decades, [69] and was characterized by China scholar Andrew Scobell as perhaps the worst terrorist act in the history of the People's Republic of China. [8] 3 April 2002: Chengdu, Sichuan
The GTD defines a terrorist attack as "the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non‐state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation." [2]
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 ...
The 2013 Beijing Capital International Airport bombing occurred at 6:24 pm on Saturday, July 20, 2013, near the Exit B at the second floor of Terminal 3 in Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China. The blast only injured the bomber Ji Zhongxing (Chinese: 冀中星) himself. [3] No flights were affected, according to airport ...
China scholar Andrew Scobell described it as perhaps the worst terrorist act in the history of the People's Republic of China. [17] There were conspiracy theories that Jin was a scapegoat with no knowledge of explosives, [11] and that the blast could have been orchestrated by disaffected ex-employees who had been laid-off in China's ...
About Category:Terrorist incidents in China and related categories. The scope of this category includes pages whose subjects relate to terrorism, a contentious label.. Value-laden labels—such as calling an organization and/or individual a terrorist—may express contentious opinion and are best avoided unless widely used by reliable sources to describe the subject, in which case use in-text ...
At 7:50 am CST (although China only has one official time zone, Ürümqi has an unofficial time zone two hours behind Chinese Standard Time, making the time 5:50 am local time), at a time when few people were about due to the early hour, [7] two SUVs without license plates, but flying flags with Uyghur writing, travelling southward, were driven ...
The attack occurred on the final day of Xi Jinping's 4-day tour of the region. [4] A day prior, he labelled Xinjiang the "front line against terrorism" during a visit to the nearby city of Kashgar, and vowed to take a hardline against terrorism and violence attributed to Muslim Uyghur separatists, which killed at least 100 people over the past year. [7]