Some misinformation had been spread by contemporaneous accounts of the Kumul Rebellion . Swiss writer Ella K. Maillart reported , inaccurately , that the Kizil massacre was an attack of Chinese Muslims and Uyghurs on a group of Kirghiz and Han Chinese . More recent sources prove that it was an attack of Kirghiz and Uyghurs on a group of Han Chinese and Chinese Muslims . She also falsely reported that during the battle of Kashgar the Chinese Muslim and Turkic ( Uyghur ) troops first took the city from the Han Chinese and Kirghiz and then fought among themselves . In reality , the Kirghiz defected from Ma Shaowu and formed their own army , and the Chinese Muslim force under Ma Zhancang joined Ma Shaowu
Kizil massacre
Kizil massacre
Kumul Rebellion