China ramps up efforts to stop deadly ethnic violence

Jul. 8, 2009

In Urumqi, police fill the streets, where Han Chinese and minority Uighurs continue to battle, each side seeking revenge for earlier attacks. In an escalating campaign to stamp out ethnic violence, Chinese forces saturated the city of Urumqi, helicopters dropped leaflets urging calm, and the...

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