Uyghurs still push for accountability 25 years after Ghulja Massacre
February 13, 2022
The 1997 incident in Xinjiang is now seen as a harbinger of the brutality to come.
On a cold winter day 25 years ago, young Uyghurs in the western Chinese city of Ghulja (in Chinese, Yining) staged a protest to call for an end to religious repression and ethnic discrimination.
The events of that day would instead come to be known as the Ghulja Massacre of 1997, an incident that Uyghurs now look upon as a harbinger of an even greater level of persecution and violence against the largely Muslim community in China that has unfolded in stages since then.
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