What the records say
- When
- 2008
- Kind
- Armed conflict
- Deaths
- 36
- Coordinates
- 39.48° N, 76.65° E
- Incompatibility
- territory
- Type of conflict
- intrastate
- Territory name
- East Turkestan
- Region
- Asia
- Location
- China
- Side a
- Government of China
Placed at the middle of its 14 recorded clashes (UCDP GED).
Xinjiang conflict
Geopolitical conflict in China
The Xinjiang conflict, also known as the East Turkestan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino–East Turkestan conflict, is an ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkestan. It is centred around the Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group who constitute a plurality of the region's population.
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The source
- UCDP Battle-Related DeathsUppsala Conflict Data ProgramCreative Commons Attribution 4.0
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