Barbara Stephens

Female, Deceased Person

1922 – 1947

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Who was Barbara Stephens?

Barbara Stephens was a young American journalist killed in Xinjiang province, China in 1947. Stephens was investigating the Kuomintang treatment of ethnic minorities in the province when in 1947 she traveled to Ili to report on the Soviet backed Second East Turkestan Republic. That year she was killed in a mysterious plane crash from Xinjiang to Beijing that also took the life of a Chinese general and the son of a British member of Parliament.

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Born
Aug 30, 1922
Nationality
  • United States of America
Died
1947

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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