10 Facts About Kumul Rebellion

1.

Kumul Rebellion was a rebellion of Kumulik Uyghurs from 1931 to 1934 who conspired with Hui Chinese Muslim Gen.

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The Kumul Rebellion Uyghurs were loyalists of the Kumul Rebellion Khanate and wanted to restore the heir to the Khanate and overthrow Jin.

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Kumul Rebellion was supported by Chiang Kai-shek, the Premier of China, who secretly agreed to let Ma seize Xinjiang.

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Yulbars Khan, advisor at the Kumul Rebellion court, appealed for help to Ma Zhongying, a Muslim warlord in Gansu Province, to overthrow Jin and restore the Khanate.

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5.

Kumul Rebellion himself wore a Kuomintang armband and a new36th Division uniform to show that he was the legitimate representative of the Chinese government.

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6.

Kumul Rebellion was easily taken, as were other towns en route to the provincial capital.

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7.

Kumul Rebellion turned out to be correct, since the Kuomintang secretly ordered Ma Zhongying and Zhang Peiyuan to attack Sheng's regime in Urumchi.

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Kamal Kaya Efendi, a former Ottoman Turkish military officer who was Ma Zhongying's chief of staff, was captured by Soviet agents in Kumul Rebellion in 1934, but instead of being executed he was made Commissar for Road Construction in Xinjiang, possibly because he was a Soviet agent himself.

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Kumul Rebellion sent out an advance guard under Ma Fuyuan to attack the Khotanlik Uyghurs and Kirghiz at Kashgar.

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10.

Kumul Rebellion falsely reported that during the battle of Kashgar the Chinese Muslim and Turkic troops first took the city from the Han Chinese and Kirghiz and then fought among themselves.

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