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How did a protest become mass murder?

ABC News: We arrived at one of Urumqi’s biggest mosques with about 80 journalists in a convoy of about six or seven mini-vans. Almost every journalist still left in Urumqi was there, because there was almost no violence on the streets.... ...full story at Black & White Cat

from Black & White Cat on Sun, Jul 12 2009

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