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Chinese Court Sentences 6 More to Death Over Xinjiang Riots

A court in western China's Xinjiang region has sentenced six more people to death over their involvement in bloody ethnic riots in July that killed almost 200 people ...full story at Voice of America

from Voice of America on Thu, Oct 15 2009

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