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The Xinjiang conflict ( Chinese: 新疆冲突 ), 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 ongoing ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China 's far- northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East ...
2014 Kunming attack. / 25.01750°N 102.72083°E / 25.01750; 102.72083. On 1 March 2014, a group of 8 knife-wielding terrorists attacked passengers in the Kunming Railway Station in Kunming, Yunnan, China, killing 31 people, and wounding 143 others. [3] The attackers pulled out long-bladed knives and stabbed and slashed passengers at random.
The attack left 31 civilians and 4 perpetrators dead with more than 140 others injured. 30 April 2014: Ürümqi, Xinjiang: April 2014 Ürümqi attack: A knife attack and bombing occurred in the Chinese city of Ürümqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The attack left three people dead and seventy-nine others injured ...
These included the September 2009 Xinjiang unrest, the 2011 Hotan attack, the 2014 Kunming attack, the April 2014 Ürümqi attack, and the May 2014 Ürümqi attack. The attacks were conducted by Uyghur separatists, with some orchestrated by the Turkistan Islamic Party (a UN-designated terrorist organization, formerly called the East Turkistan ...
The 2015 Aksu colliery attack, also known as the Baicheng incident took place on 18 September 2015, when a group of separatists, suspected to be Uyghurs, attacked workers and security guards at a coal mine in Baicheng County in Aksu, Xinjiang, leaving at least 16 dead and 18 wounded according to government sources, with other estimates reaching as high as 50 dead and 50 wounded.
May 2014 Ürümqi attack. / 43.79361°N 87.59694°E / 43.79361; 87.59694. On the morning of 22 May 2014, two sport utility vehicles (SUVs) carrying five assailants were driven into a busy street market in Ürümqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Up to a dozen explosives were thrown at shoppers from the windows ...
On 28 October 2013, a car ran over pedestrians and crashed in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, in a terrorist suicide attack. [3] Five people died in the incident; three inside the vehicle and two others nearby. [4] [5] Police identified the driver as Usmen Hasan and the two passengers as his wife, Gulkiz Gini, and his mother, Kuwanhan Reyim. [4]
Turkestan Islamic Party. Motive. Islamic extremism. On 30 April 2014, a bomb-and-knife attack occurred in the Chinese city of Ürümqi, Xinjiang. The terrorist attack killed 3 people, and injured 79 others. The attack coincided with the conclusion of a visit by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party to the region.