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Uighurs sentenced to death over China's deadliest riots which killed 200

Six men have been sentenced to death in the first convictions after mobs of Muslim Uighurs rampaged through a western city in July, leaving nearly 200 people dead in the deadliest riot in China for decades. ...full story at Times Online

from Times Online on Mon, Oct 12 2009

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