Battle of Yarkand
| Battle of Yarkand | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Kumul Rebellion | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Republic of China 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) |
 First East Turkestan Republic | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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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. 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
- ↑ Andrew D. W. Forbes (1986). Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: A Political History of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949. Cambridge, England: CUP Archive. p. 376. ISBN 0-521-25514-7. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
- ↑ Christian Tyler (2004). Wild West China: The Taming of Xinjiang. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. p. 314. ISBN 0-8135-3533-6. Retrieved 2010-06-28.