Uighur Timeline ---
Contents
- *References
- *Recent Timeline - 2014
- *Timeline
*References
Xinjiang conflict - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
*Recent Timeline -
Year 2016
12/28/2016 terror: vehicle ramming, bomb killed: 5 Five dead in attack in China's Xinjiang Wednesday, 28 Dec 2016 Reuters Attackers drove a car into a government building in China's unruly far western region of Xinjiang on Wednesday and set off an explosive device killing one person, while all four of the attackers were shot dead, the regional government said.
Year 2015
Oct 2, 2015 China’s Desperate Battle Against Separatist Terrorism By Zunyou Zhou Thailand’s police have linked the August 17 bomb attack on the Erawan Shrine, a popular tourist attraction in Bangkok, to Uighurs, a largely Muslim ethnic group some of whom have been fleeing Chinese rule. The bombing killed 20 people, including seven Chinese tourists, and injured more than 100 others. Nobody has claimed responsibility for one of the worst terrorist incidents in recent Thai history... If the Thai allegation proves to be true, the blast would mark a rare spillover of violence related to Uighurs outside China. This attack would add a new dimension to the serious issue of terrorism in China, with significant security implications not only for China but also for Turkey, Thailand and other transit countries in connection with the movement of Uighurs.
Sept 21, 2015 Thailand Blames Uighur Militants for Bombing at Bangkok Shrine By THOMAS FULLER and EDWARD WONG The national police chief was the first top official to explicitly attribute the attack to members of the aggrieved minority in western China.
Year 2014
September 23, 2014 China gives moderate Uighur scholar life in prison on .. The Washington Post China sentenced prominent Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti to life in prison Tuesday on charges of advocating separatism. He was found guilty of attacking the government's ethnic, religious and family planning policies; voicing support for terrorists, and internationalizing the issues by speaking with foreign journalists according to his lawyer.
50 killed September 21, 2014 China Raises Death Toll From Xinjiang Bombs, Riots to 50 Bloomberg News Sep 25, 2014 Forty “rioters,” six civilians and four police personnel died when several bombs exploded at places including a farmers’ market, two police stations and a shop in Luntai county at 5 p.m. on Sept. 21, news website Tianshannet reported. Another 54 people were injured, with 32 belonging to the Uighur ethnic minority and 22 Han Chinese, it said, citing the Xinjiang police investigation. Most of the dead were either killed by suicide bombs or shot by police.
3 dead including 2 suspects, 1 arrested July 30, 2014 State-Appointed Muslim Leader Killed in China Wall Street Journal "The state-approved leader of China's largest mosque by size was killed in the far western Chinese city of Kashgar, according to multiple accounts, in the latest violence in a region beset by ethnic and religious strife." Some Uighurs in Kashgar resented Islamic clerics who collaborated with the Communist Party. Three Uighur men attacked imam Juma Tahir, who were "affected by religious extremist thinking". Police shot dead two and arrested a third man later.
July 30, 2014 Uighur Scholar Faces Separatism Charge as Xinjiang Unrest Rages Bloomberg Chinese authorities formally charged Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti with inciting separatism for allegedly inciting students to overthrow the government, following clashes in his native Xinjiang region that killed dozens of people.
Dozens killed July 26, 27 2014 Uighurs launch massive knife-wielding terrorist attack in China on the eve of an important Muslim holiday. Instead of one or a dozens, as many as 300 knife-wielding "thugs," presumed to be Muslim Uighur separatists, conducted a "premeditated and carefully planned" attack on a government building and police station in Ailixihu, a town in China's restive northwest Xinjing province while another group attacked nearby Huangdi township. The terrorists killed dozens of Han and Uighur civilians and destroyed 31 vehicles. The police killed over 20 of the attackers.
July 14, 2014 China Denies Entry to an American Scholar Who Spoke Up for a Uighur Colleague
By EDWARD WONG New York Times The American professor said he believed he was being punished for his vocal backing of Ilham Tohti, an ethnic Uighur economics professor. Elliot Sperling, an American professor, landed here in Beijing after a 12-hour flight from the New York area last weekend, he found himself dragged by border officers into a back room in the airport for an interrogation.
7 killed including 1 suspect, 1 injured, 5 arrested July 9, 2014 6 Han Farmers Killed in Xinjiang Six Chinese Han farmers were stabbed and killed while another woman was injured by a team of eight Uyghur attackers. Security personnel shot dead one and five suspects in Uchturpan county in Xinjiang province. Uyghur residents blame discrimination as Han Chinese make up less than 5 percent of the village population in Uchturpan, but own nearly 50 percent of the total land. Others believe the home invasions seek to sow terror among Han who have moved into the region.
July 7, 2014 China Sentences 113 to Prison in Xinjiang Region New York Times By EDWARD WONG Courts in the western region of Xinjiang sentenced the defendants for a wide range of crimes, including organizing and taking part in terrorist organizations, state media reported.
June 20, 2014 Police Officer Stabbed to Death, Another Wounded rfa.org Radio Free Asia Jun 25, 2014 - An ethnic minority Uyghur suspect stabbed a police officer to death ... The attack occurred at the Ishkul township police station in Yarkand seriously wounded another in Yarkand's Ishkul township police station after he was allegedly tortured during interrogations, local police said.
May 22, 2014 122 casualties 31 killed 91 injured Uyghur Region Urumqi China Bombing Car Rampage Kills 31 In Urumqi China, capital of the Uyghur Autonomous Region, 31 were killed and 91 injured as two cars deliberately ran over people while tossing explosive bombs in a morning marketplace area. The government is blaming militant muslim Uyghur separatists who have also been behind a series of bombing and stabbing attacks at train stations. Western media reports it is a very obvious case of terrorism.
May 2, 2014 (New York Times) China Criticizes U.S. Terrorism Report - China slammed the US State Department's annual terrorism report for playing down terrorism in China. The 2013 Country Reports on Terrorism does list the Tiananmen attack under 2013 terrorist incidents, noting Chinese authorities "labeled several incidents of violence involving members of the Uighur minority as acts of terrorism", but qualified by echoing Uighur apologist sentiment that it lacked outside verification and independent evidence that it was directed by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement
Casualties 159 29 killed 130 injured
March 14, 2014 Changsha Xinjiang Uighur Bread Shop Stabbing Spree 6 killed In Changsha China, just two weeks after the train station mass stabbing, 6 are killed in a stabbing spree that starts with an argument between 2 Uighur vendors from Xinjiang in a naan bread shop. It appeared (or was staged) to be personal and not related to ethnic tensions. The two vendors got into a fight as one stabbed the other to death, and then started randomly stabbing bystanders in anger to death, and injured another two on the street as he fled before he was shot by police. It may have actually been a double murder suicide to make it appear that victims were only bystanders when they were evidently the actual primary targets.
May 22, 2014 122 casualties 31 killed 91 injured Uyghur Region Urumqi China Bombing Car Rampage Kills 31 In Urumqi China, capital of the Uyghur Autonomous Region, 31 were killed and 91 injured as two cars deliberately ran over people while tossing explosive bombs in a morning marketplace area. The government is blaming militant muslim Uyghur separatists who have also been behind a series of bombing and stabbing attacks at train stations. Western media reports it is a very obvious case of terrorism.
29 killed 130 injured Saturday February 28, 2014 Kunming China Train Station Stabbing Attack At least 29 are killed and 130 injured by a gang of apparent knife-wielding terrorists dressed in black uniforms who went on a stabbing spree at a train station in Kunming, China. The government concluded it was a terrorist attack by Uighur extremists as the men were gunned down by police.
1 killed August 2013 Abdurehim Damaolla of the government-affiliated Islamic Assn was stabbed to death accused of helping police.
1 beaten May 2013 Tursun Qadir, the principal of a middle school was beaten up by a mob for punishing girls who covered their heads.
*Timeline
60 BC: Protectorate of China
18th century: Chinese province of Xinjiang
19th century: Russian orthodox believers emigrated to Xinjiang, followed by Russian Civil War
1910s-1920s: China's warlord era, the Soviet Union propped up the separatist Second East Turkestan Republic
First East Turkestan Republic (1933–1934)
Islamic republic centered on the city of Kashgar short-lived breakaway would-be Islamic republic founded in 1933. It was centered on the city of Kashgar in what is today the People's Republic of China-administered Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Although primarily the product of independence movement of the Uyghurpopulation living there, the ETR was Turkish-ethnic in character, including Kyrgyz, and other Turkic / Turkish in its government and its population. With the sacking of Kashgar in 1934 by Hui warlords nominally allied with the Kuomintang government in Nanjing, the first ETR was effectively eliminated. Its example, however, served to some extent as inspiration for the founding of a Second East Turkestan Republic a decade later, and continues to influence modern Uyghur nationalist support for the creation of an independent East Turkestan.
Second East Turkestan Republic (1944–1949) Soviet Backed
The Second East Turkestan Republic, usually known as the East Turkestan Republic (ETR), was a short-lived Soviet-backed Turkic people's republic. The ETR existed in the 1940s (November 12, 1944 – October 20, 1949) in present day Xinjiang. It began as a revolution in three northern districts (Ili, Tarbaghatai, Altai) of Xinjiang province of the Republic of China.
An East Turkistan Islamic Republic was established twice before Chinese communist victory in 1949
1949: Russia only accepted Chinese rule when the Chinese communists established thePeople's Republic of China after the Chinese Civil War and gave ETR back.
Before reform, Chinese authorities had repressive policies against ethnic minorities and border controls which hindered Uyghur travel to the Mecca pilgrammage. China promoted majority Han migration, and curtailed the practice of Islam and teaching of language.
In 1979 after the reform period, mosques and religious schools proliferated. Separate Uyghur schools were set up in their own language to preserve and respect national minority culture and language.
1980s: During this period, some Uyghurs came into contact with radical Islamist groups operating in Central Asia and Pakistan, while others were studied in Koranic schools associated with Islamist movements. The increase in fundamentalism has been linked to the Islamic revival of the 1980s, following Deng Xiaoping's political reforms which sought to reduce the suppression of religion and promotion of atheism.
During this time, countries such as Kazakhstan and Kirghizstan offered asylum to Uyghur refugees, and recognition to groups pursuing independence. To combat this, the Beijing government settled border disputes and offered economic co-operation with the Central Asian republics through the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, and successfully persuaded these countries to ban Uyghur separatist groups residing there, as well as to extradite suspected Uyghur separatist refugees.
1992:
February 6, 1992 Uyghur separatists (possibly belonging to the East Turkestan Islamic Party) detonated a bomb on a public bus in Urumqi, and a bomb attack on a hotel in Kashgar on 17 June 1992.[9]
1993:
In a gesture of Chinese dominion, in 1993, the ashes of a loathed People’s Liberation Army general, Wang Zhen, were scattered from atop a sacred mountain in the Tien Shan range, which is the main source of the Uighurs’ water in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Since then, the Uighurs feel they have been forced to live on water tainted by the remains of their nemesis.
The East Turkestan Islamic Movement was founded in 1993 by two natives of Hotan. It failed to last to year's end as China arrested its leaders. Hasan Mahsum was arrested in October 1993 by the Chinese police for terrorist activities and sentenced to three years of re-education through labour.
1994:
In December 1994, Abudumijit Muhammatkelim organized a terrorist group with himself as the head, which plotted acts of violence and terror with purchased and homemade weapons and ammunition.
1996:
In 1996 imam Harunhan Haji survived an attack on his way to prayers.
Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden moves from Sudan to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan after the US identified Bin Laden as a dangerous terrorist and pressured Sudan to not give him refuge. He will later invite the Uyghurs to visit.
February 10, 1996: Abudumijit Muhammatkelim directed his followers to commit a robbery on February 10, 1996, in Onsu County of Xinjiang, which involved the gun killing of two policemen and a herdsman.
April 29, 1996: Under his instruction, of Abudumijit Muhammatkelim Yasin Molla Memet and a dozen other followers in the Chinese territory broke into the homes of Kawul Tika and three other villagers in Kunas Village of Alahag Township, Kuqa County, Xinjiang. Four villagers were killed, and three others were injured with explosives, guns and knives.
May 12, 1996 May 12 the same year Abudumijit Muhammatkelim im directed Abudulla and two other terrorists in an operation in Kashi City, Xinjiang, where the three chopped at religious personnel Arunhan Haji (vice chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and head of Atigar Mosque) and his son Anwar with knives, leaving the father and son in severe injury.
1997: Mahsum finishes his prison term. On his release, he flees China in 1997 to exile in Al Qaeda's base in Afghanistan which gives him a passport issued by the Taliban. He becomes the leader of other anti-Chinese exiles. The Uyghurs under Mahsum were subsumed under the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), as per a directive from Taliban leader Mullah Omar. They received refuge in al-Qaeda camps run by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan but had no formal name. Consistent with this, in an interview in 2002, Mahsum said that his fighters did not have “any organizational contact or relations with al Qaeda or the Taliban, though he allowed that perhaps some some individuals fought alongside them on their own.
After he fled abroad, Abudukadir Yapuquan and Hasan Mahsum organized the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement terrorist organization and served as vice chairman, advocating establishing an "Eastern Turkistan Islamic State" in Xinjiang through "Jihad". Afterwards, Abudukadir Yapuquan set up terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. Most reports trace the ETIM back to its rebirth under Hasan Mahsum and Abudukadir Yapuquan in 1997. Abudumijit Muhammatkelim is appointed one of the chiefs of the terrorist organization mainly responsible for personnel training and exterior liaison.
Uighur Timeline Ninjapundit Timeline
http://ninjapundit.blogspot.com/2014/05/uighur-freedom-struggle-timeline.html
No comments:
Post a Comment