Ghulja incident
| Ghulja Incident | |||
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| Part of the Xinjiang conflict | |||
| Date | February 3, 1997 February 3–5, 1997 | ||
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| Caused by | Ethnic tension | ||
| Goals | Autonomy for the Uyghurs | ||
| Methods | Protests, rioting | ||
| Resulted in | Crowd dispersed by police | ||
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| Casualties | |||
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| Injuries | 198 | ||
| Arrested | 1,600+ (dissident claims) | ||
The Ghulja, Gulja, or Yining incident (Chinese: 伊寧事件, Yīníng Shìjiàn), also known as the Ghulja massacre, was the culmination of the Ghulja protests of 1997, a series of protests in the city of Yining—known as Ghulja in Uyghur—in the Xinjiang autonomous region of China.