Editing Yining (section)

=== People's Republic ===
Yining became a separate city from [[Yining County]] in 1952. In 1962, major Sino-Soviet clashes{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} took place along the [[Ili River]].

In 1997, in what came to be known as the [[Ghulja incident]], the city was rocked by two days of demonstrations or riots<ref>"Xinjiang to intensify crackdown on separatists", [[China Daily]], 10/25/2001 [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2001-10/25/content_90592.htm]</ref> followed by a [[Chinese Communist Party]] government crackdown resulting in at least 9 deaths following the execution of 30 [[Uyghurs|Uyghur]] activists.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RUCOrg2Pb0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/4RUCOrg2Pb0 |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|title=Gulja Massacre|via=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref>