2013 Tiananmen Square attack

Terrorist attack in Beijing, China April 2026 2013 Tiananmen Square car attack The car crashed outside of the Gate of Heavenly Peace on Tiananmen Square the Xinjiang conflict Beijing, China 39 54 27 N 116 23 50 E type:incident_region:CN-BJ title,inline 28 October 2013 Car attack (suspected suicide bombing)Kang Benjamin https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-tiananmen-idUSBRE99S02R20131029 China suspects Tiananmen crash a suicide attack- sources 29 October 2013 Reuters 30 October 2013 5 (including three attackers) 38 East Turkestan Islamic Movement Islamic extremism On 28 October 2013, a car ran over pedestrians and crashed in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, in a terrorist suicide attack.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-24722898 Tiananmen crash: China police 'seek Xinjiang suspects' 29 October 2013 BBC News Online 29 October 2013 Five people died in the incident; three inside the vehicle and two others nearby.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-police-say-tiananmen-square-crash-was-premeditated-violent-terrorist-attack/2013/10/30/459e3e7e-4152-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html Chinese police say Tiananmen Square crash was 'premeditated, violent, terrorist attack Washington Post 30 October 2013 Associated Press 3 March 2014https://www.economist.com/news/china/21656216-teaching-uighur-children-mandarin-will-not-bring-stability-xinjiang-tongue-tied Tongue Tied: Education in Xinjiang 27 June 2015 The Economist 0013-0613 2016-11-15 Police identified the driver as Usmen Hasan and the two passengers as his wife, Gulkiz Gini, and his mother, Kuwanhan Reyim. An additional 38 people were injured. Chinese police described it as a "major incident" and as the first terrorist attack in Beijing's recent history.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/police-focus-on-uighur-suspects-after-apparent-suicide-car-attack-near-tiananmen-square/2013/10/29/80f6149c-4102-11e3-b028-de922d7a3f47_story.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131030204622/http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/police-focus-on-uighur-suspects-after-apparent-suicide-car-attack-near-tiananmen-square/2013/10/29/80f6149c-4102-11e3-b028-de922d7a3f47_story.html dead 30 October 2013 China police call Tiananmen Gate suicide attack an act of terrorism, arrest 5 suspects Washington Post 31 October 2013 Associated Press 31 October 2013 The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, or Turkistan Islamic Party, claimed responsibility and warned of future attacks.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/25/islamist-china-tiananmen-beijing-attack Islamist group claims responsibility for attack on China's Tiananmen Square Jonathan Kaiman 25 November 2013 The Guardianhttps://www.smh.com.au/world/turkestan-islamic-party-islamist-group-warns-of-more-attacks-such-as-tiananmen-20131125-2y632.html Turkestan Islamic Party Islamist group warns of more attacks such as Tiananmen Philip Wen 25 November 2013 The Sydney Morning Herald Incident A 4×4 vehicle crashed into a crowd and burst into flames near the portrait of Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Square. Two tourists, identified as a woman from the Philippines and a male Chinese citizen from Guangdong, were killed during the attack. All three people inside the car were also killed. Thirty-eight other people were injured. Witnesses at the scene said that the driver involved in the incident was honking his horn at pedestrians. Investigation Chinese police later issued a notice to Beijing hotels seeking information about two people from China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The notice described a vehicle and four Xinjiang number plates. They also instructed hotels to be aware of "suspicious" guests.China names Tiananmen Square car crash 'suspects' http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/China-names-Tiananmen-Square-car-crash-suspects/articleshow/24877935.cms Times of India 29 October 2013 29 October 2013 The police notice also required hotels to report all guests who had registered since 1 October, and the cars they had driven. The request was issued "In order to prevent the suspects and vehicles from committing more crimes".https://world.time.com/2013/10/29/beijing-looks-for-uighur-link-after-mysterious-tiananmen-square-crash/ Beijing Looks for Uighur Link After Tiananmen Fireball 29 October 2013 TIME magazine 29 October 2013 Five people were later arrested by Chinese police, all being Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim minority group, who hailed from their native Xinjiang, a region in which there is ongoing conflict. One suspect was from the town of Lukun in Shanshan County, the location of an attack in June 2013 in which 30 people were killed. The five suspects were taken into police custody, and said they knew Hasan. Three of the suspects, identified as Huseyin Guxur, Yusup Wherniyas and Yusup Ehmet, were convicted of masterminding the attack, and executed in August 2014.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-28917604 China executes eight, including Tiananmen attackers 24 August 2014 BBC News 29 August 2015 Top Chinese security official Meng Jianzhu said that the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) was behind the attacks,Bodeen Christopher http://bigstory.ap.org/article/china-east-turkestan-movement-behind-deadly-crash China: East Turkestan movement behind deadly crash Bigstory.ap.org 1 November 2013 5 November 2013 10 November 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141110121458/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/china-east-turkestan-movement-behind-deadly-crash dead but Uyghur exile groups and some Western observers disputed the claim.https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/04/world/asia/china-demotes-a-military-commander-after-attack-in-beijing.html China Strips Army Official of Position After Attack 3 November 2013 Andrew Jacobs The New York Times On 24 November 2013, the Turkistan Islamic Party, which has since been absorbed by the ETIM, declared it was responsible for the attack. Reaction A BBC camera crew was briefly detained by police after taking footage of the attack. Coverage in the Chinese state media largely downplayed the incident, with only brief reports.China police hunt Beijing explosion suspects http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/10/search-launched-beijing-incident-suspects-2013102945014189686.html 29 October 2013 Al Jazeera 29 October 2013 Although such associations were made in English-language media, Chinese-language publications did not link the incident to Xinjiang. Chinese internet users also reposted and spread photographs of the incident. Six days after the attack, General Peng Yong, commander of the Xinjiang Military District, was removed from the Regional Party Standing Committee, the Communist Party governing body in Xinjiang, and replaced by Liu Lei, political commissar of the Xinjiang MD. Then–United States State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said America supported China's investigation into the matter but declined to call it a terrorist attack and reiterated American support for Uyghur human rights. See also Society 2013 Taiyuan attack List of massacres in China References Category:2013 in Beijing Category:2013 murders in China Category:Car and truck bombings in Asia Category:Crime in Beijing Category:Islamic terrorism in China Category:Islamic terrorist incidents in 2013 Category:Terrorist incidents in China in 2013 Category:Terrorist incidents in China Category:Tiananmen Square Category:Turkistan Islamic Party Category:Vehicle-ramming attacks in China Category:Xinjiang conflict Category:October 2013 crimes in Asia Category:October 2013 in China