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The relative of a Han Chinese man, injured during the recent ethnic clashes, sits weeping at the end of his bed in a ward at the Urumqi Friendship Hospital in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region
08 Jul 2009
Source: Reuters
 
The relative of a Han Chinese man, injured during the recent ethnic clashes, sits weeping at the end of his bed in a ward at the Urumqi Friendship Hospital in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region July 8, 2009. At least 156 people have been killed in rioting in China's northwestern Xinjiang region, with the government blaming exiled separatists for the traditionally Muslim area's worst case of unrest in years. REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA CONFLICT MILITARY POLITICS)
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Chinese soldiers and policemen in riot gear stand together on the main square in the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region July 8, 2009. China said a riot that ...


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