Battle of Yarkand

Battle of Yarkand
Part of the Kumul Rebellion
Date April 1934 Location Yarkand, Xinjiang Result Chinese Muslim victory
Belligerents
Republic of China 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army)	First East Turkestan Republic
Commanders and leaders
Ma Zhancang Ma Fuyuan	Abdullah Bughra  †
Strength
Several hundred Chinese Muslim troops	Several hundred Turkic Muslim Uighur, Kirghiz and Afghan volunteers
Casualties and losses
light	All Uighurs, Kirghiz and Afghans wiped out

The Battle of Yarkhand was a confrontation that took place in April 1934 at Yarkand, Xinjiang, China. Gen. Ma Zhancang's Chinese Muslim army defeated Uighur and Afghan volunteers sent by King Mohammed Zahir Shah, and exterminated them all. The emir Abdullah Bughra was killed and beheaded, his head being put on display at Idgah mosque.^[1][2]

References

1. Andrew D. W. Forbes (1986). Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: A Political History of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949. Cambridge, England: CUP Archive. pp. 123, 134, 303 of 376. ISBN 0-521-25514-7. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
2. Christian Tyler (2004). Wild West China: The Taming of Xinjiang. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. p. 280; 314. ISBN 0-8135-3533-6. Retrieved 2010-06-28.