During the night of 25 – 26 June 2009 , in the Shaoguan incident in Guangdong , two people were killed and 118 injured . The incident reportedly triggered the July 2009 Ürümqi riots ; others were the September 2009 Xinjiang unrest and the 2010 Aksu bombing , after which 376 people were tried . The July 2011 Hotan attack led to the deaths of 18 civilians . Although the attackers were Uyghurs , Han and Uyghurs were victims . That year , six ethnic Uyghur men unsuccessfully attempted to hijack an aircraft heading to Ürümqi , a series of knife and bomb attacks occurred in July and the Pishan hostage crisis occurred in December . Credit for the attacks was professed by the Turkistan Islamic Party
knife and bomb attacks
2011 Kashgar attacks
Xinjiang conflict