The Ghulja Incident (Chinese: 伊宁事件; pinyin: Yīníng Shìjiàn, also referred to as the Ghulja Massacre) was the culmination of the Ghulja protests of 1997, a series of demonstrations[2] in the city of Ghulja (known as Yining (伊宁) in Chinese) in the Xinjiang autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC) beginning in early February 1997.