Ili Rebellion

The Three Districts Revolution or Revolution in the three districts (Ch Sanqu Geming三 区 革命or Yining shibian伊宁 事变), which is also called Ili Rebellion, Revolution Yining, Yining Incident, etc., was a against the Kuomintang -looking Revolution in Xinjiang in the years 1944-1949, which emanated from the city of Yining (Chinese: Yining ).

Background and History

In November 1933, founded Sabit Damolla and his colleagues called the " Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkestan ", the (first) Republic of East Turkestan, in Kashgar with Xoja Niyaz as Prime Minister, but had only a few months inventory.

The "revolution" broke out in 1944 in the three districts (then Ili, Tarbagatay and Altay ) against the rule of the Kuomintang from where the separatist Elihan Goals ( from Uzbekistan in the former USSR ) in Yining supported by the Soviet Union to revolutionary pro- communist orienting (second) " Republic of East Turkestan ," calling, the first head he was.

Dismissed in June 1946, the leader of the revolution Ahmatjan Kasimi, Abdukerim Abbasov, inter alia, Elihan doors of his office. The Republic of East Turkestan was transformed into a council meeting of the Special District Ili.

The former center of political and cultural activities of the Government of the Three Districts Revolution ( Sanqu Geming Zhengfu Zhengzhi wenhua huodong zhongxin Jiuzhi三 区 革命 政府 政治 文化 活动 中心 旧址) in the city of Yining ( Yining ) is since 2006 on the list of monuments the People's Republic of China ( 6-1079 ).