As China released a list Thursday of 15 people wanted in connection with ethnic violence in Xinjiang province, it dismissed claims from an exiled activist that more than 10,000 Chinese Muslims disappeared during the unrest. ...full story at cbcnews
from cbcnews on Thu, Jul 30 2009
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