By NBC News’ Bo Gu
URUMQI, Xinjiang – As we drove through the empty streets of Urumqi, I was immediately reminded of the unrest in the Tibetan capital Lhasa last year – but with one key difference.
Here, in the remote capital of China’s northwestern Xinjiang province, there were few pedestrians, truckloads of armed police, [...]
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09 Jul, 2009
Chinese open up – slightly – over Uighur riots
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By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent
URUMQI, China – Thousands of riot police have descended upon the Western city of Urumqi as Chinese authorities try to control the ethnic tensions that sparked riots on Sunday and left at least 156 dead. Fears of further violent clashes between the local Uighur population and Han Chinese in the [...]
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