Kizil massacre | |
Location: | Near Kashgar, Xinjiang |
Target: | Chinese Muslim soldiers and Han Chinese civilians |
Date: | June 1933 |
Fatalities: | 800 |
The Kizil massacre occurred in June 1933, when Uighur and Kyrgyz Turkic fighters broke their agreement not to attack a column of retreating Hui Chinese soldiers and civilians from Yarkand New City on their way to Kashgar.[1] An estimated 800 Chinese Muslim and Chinese civilians were killed by Turkic Muslim fighters.[2]