The East Turkestan People's Revolutionary Party (Uyghur: Shärqiy Turkistan Khälq Inqilawi Partiyisi‎ ; Chinese: 东突厥斯坦人民革命党) was an Uyghur communist party and armed separatist group in Xinjiang. It was founded in 1969 or earlier[2] during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, and was the largest armed separatist group in the Xinjiang conflict before its dissolution in 1989.[3][4]