Baren Township riot

Baren Township Riot (Barin Revolution Uprising)
Part of the Xinjiang conflict
DateApril 1990
LocationAkto County, Xinjiang
Result People's Liberation Army victory
Belligerents
East Turkestan Islamic Party People's Liberation Army, People's Armed Police
Commanders and leaders
Zeydun Yusup   Jiang Zeming
Strength
500-3000 Uyghur fighters 22,454 -124,000
Casualties and losses
2000 - 3000 killed, 289 captured unknown

The Baren Township Riot was a riot and armed confrontation that took place in April 1990.[1] On April 5, 1990, in Kizilsu's Akto County and in the town of Baren, Zeydun Yusup, a member of the East Turkistan Islamic Party[2] led 200 men to protest. They marched to the local government office and demanded an end to the mass immigration of Han Chinese into Xinjiang.

The initial response of the Chinese government was to send in 500 troops to stop the demonstrations. The Uyghur fighters captured several hundred rifles, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. On April 6, 1990, the Chinese government sent in 4,000 well-equipped People's Liberation Army soldiers. By the end of April 6, 1990, over 18,000 Chinese troops had been dispatched to crush the resistance. It was noted at the time that the population of Baren was 19,000.[3]

The conflict ended on April 10, 1990, costing the lives of 107 Uyghur miulitants and the arrest of 289 militants. It was said that 1,600 Uyghur militants and Chinese soldiers were killed in the 5 days of conflict. Over 7,900 Uyghurs were arrested following the crackdown on "criminal activities of ethnic splittists and other criminal offenders." [4] Though an official account of civilian casualties is absent, exiles and participants in the event claimed that several thousand civilians had died with thousands more wounded.

References

  1. "DOCUMENT - CHINA: GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE XINJIANG UIGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION (INCLUDES ERRATUM)". Amnesty International. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  2. "The 1990s: the turn towards repression". chinaperspectives.revues.org. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  3. "Barin Inqiwalining Netijiliri". Norwègiye Uyghur Komitèti. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. "Uighur Developments in the 1990s". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
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