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2011 Hotan attack

On 18 July 2011, a group of 18 ethnic Uyghur militants in Hotan, Xinjiang, China occupied a police station on Nuerbage Street at noon, killing two security guards and taking eight hostages. The attackers then yelled religious slogans, including ones associated with Jihadism, as they took down a Chinese flag flying from the police station. After a firefight with police around 1:30 p.m., 14 attackers were killed, and 4 were captured. 6 of the hostages were rescued alive, while 2 were killed in the attack. Local and national governments said the attack was organized terrorism motivated by religious extremism, and found that two of the attackers had links to the militant East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). A team from China's counter-terrorism office was sent to Hotan to investigate the attack. ETIM acknowledged responsibility for the attack on 8 September, as well as for the attacks in Kashgar later that same July. Later in September, 6 men received prison or death sentences for their involvement in both attacks.

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• ▸Disco
• ▸1980s in fashion
• ▸Harris Sumrie

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