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10,000 Uighurs missing in China: activist

Nearly 10,000 Uighurs who were involved in deadly ethnic riots in China's Xinjiang region earlier in July went missing in one night, a Uighur activist said Wednesday in Tokyo. ...full story at cbcnews

from cbcnews on Wed, Jul 29 2009

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