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Wal-Mart Workers Beat Customer To Death

In Jiangxi province, a Chinese woman is stopped by five Wal-Mart employees after shopping for suspected shop-lifting. When she refused to cooperate with these five non-uniformed strangers, they beat her to death. Wal-Mart has made no comment more than... ...full story at ESWN

from ESWN on Mon, Sep 07 2009

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