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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Threat of Executions in China

As the desert region of Xinjiang in northwest China settled into tense stillness after three days of deadly ethnic violence, a Communist Party leader from the region said that those directly responsible for the killings of 156 people in the initial rioting on Sunday would be punished with the death penalty.

link: China Warns of Executions as Riots Ebb - NYTimes.com


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