Yining

In July last year, in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, police launched a house-to-house search campaign in Gulja [in Chinese, Yining], a Uyghur city in Ili prefecture known as a traditional center of opposition to Beijing's rule.

Spero News 2009

In July last year, in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, police launched a house-to-house search campaign in Gulja [in Chinese, Yining], a Uyghur city in Ili prefecture known as a traditional center of opposition to Beijing's rule.

Spero News 2009

But while Tursun is a peasant, her husband is from the city of Gulja [in Chinese, Yining], so their status is unclear.

NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2008

The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-6.0 earthquake hit China's Xinjiang region about 60 miles 100 kilometers from the city of Yining at 8:20 a.m.

China Earthquakes: Two Moderate Temblors Shake Country's Northwest And Southwest Regions The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-6.0 earthquake hit China's Xinjiang region about 60 miles 100 kilometers from the city of Yining at 8:20 a.m.

China Earthquakes: Two Moderate Temblors Shake Country's Northwest And Southwest Regions The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Yet even according to Beijing's authorized version, the three-day battle between police and ethnic Uighur protesters in the city of Yining, about 30 miles from the Kazak border, was northwestern China's bloodiest outbreak of mass unrest in 50 years.

Brush Fire On The Far Frontier 2008

The Yining Riot, also discussed in Millward's essay, is a clear example.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

There was once a similarly named group “东突伊斯兰真主党”, allegedly, involved in the Yining Riots of 1997.

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

The Yining Riot, also discussed in Millward's essay, is a clear example.

Why Xinjiang is not like Iraq, or a Major Al Qaeda Front 2007

There was once a similarly named group “东突伊斯兰真主党”, allegedly, involved in the Yining Riots of 1997.

Huseyin Celil: Human Political Football 2007