Report gives harrowing details of 2014 terrorist attack

A new report from Jinan University's Institute for Communication and Borderland Governance, which is based in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, provides a harrowing account of a 2014 terrorist attack in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, based on interviews with survivors and witnesses.

The report is the second installment of a series "Victims and Survivors of Terrorism in China: An Oral History", aiming to document the human impact of terrorism through personal narratives. The first installment was published in January with a few other installments to be issued later.

The June 15, 2014, attack unfolded in a chess room on Yingbin Road in Hotan, Xinjiang, when three machete-wielding assailants stormed in and began attacking patrons. The struggle with witnesses and the intervention of police and bystanders eventually led to the attackers being subdued. Two of the terrorists died, one was injured and captured, and four civilians were wounded.