China Riots

Deadly Riots In China

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 04.29.2012

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BEIJING (AP) — China on Wednesday accused terrorists in a Muslim Uighur region of attacking civilians, but an exiled Uighur group said the violence ...

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Reports: Death Of Disabled Fruit Starts Riots In Southern China

Posted 09.26.2011

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BEIJING - July 27 (Reuters) - Angry residents in a southern Chinese city went on the rampage after officials apparently beat to death a disabled f...

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China Executes 9 Uighurs Over July Ethnic Riots

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING — China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 p...

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China Executes 2 Tibetans For The Roles In 2008 Riots

AP | By HENRY SANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING -- Two people have been put to death for their roles in deadly protests last year in the Chinese-controlled region of Tibet, the first known e...

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Top 10 World Stories You Need To Know From This Summer (SLIDESHOW)

The Huffington Post | Susan Ryan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Have you been spending the summer sipping margaritas on the beach, or joining friends and fam for countless bar-b-ques? While you've been relaxing, we...

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China: Uighur Riots Suspects To Be Tried

nytimes.com | ANDREW JACOBS | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING China will begin trials in the next few weeks for suspects it accuses of playing a role in the deadly riots that shook the capital of Xinjiang...

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China Riots: Violence Followed By Beauty Contest

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the wake of the recent fatal riots in Urumqi, China, an international beauty contest will open in the city this weekend, reports Xinhua. Forty gir...

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Bearing Witness 2.0: You Can't Spin 10,000 Tweets and Camera Phone Uploads

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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When deadly riots broke out in China last week, the Chinese government sprang into message control mode. It choked off the Internet, blocked Twitter, and deleted updates and videos from social networking sites. At the same time, it invited foreign journalists to take a tour of the area. The Chinese have clearly learned the lessons of Iran. READ MORE Shattering the Right vs. Left Prism Once Again: The Wall Street Journal Goes After Goldman and the Bank Bailout Even the capitalist Bible is taking shots at Wall Street darling Goldman Sachs. We've now reached the point where the only people defending the administration's Wall Street policies are the people benefiting from them -- or their good friends, Tim Geithner and Larry Summers. READ MORE

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Uighurs Force China To Open Mosques For Friday Prayers

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN and GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011

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URUMQI, China — China raised the death toll from riots in its Xinjiang region to 184, state media said Saturday, giving an ethnic breakdown of t...

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Hu Jintao Skips Obama Meeting To Return Home Due To Ethnic Fighting

nytimes.com | ALAN COWELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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PARIS President Hu Jintao of China cut short a trip to Italy on Wednesday to fly home after the deadly ethnic clashes in the northwestern Xinjiang reg...

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China: Rioters Behind Killings Will Be Executed

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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URUMQI, China — Thousands of Chinese troops flooded into this city Wednesday to separate feuding ethnic groups after three days of communal viol...

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China's Riots: West Descends Into Mob Violence Between Han Chinese, Muslim Uighurs

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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URUMQI, China — Sobbing Muslim women scuffled with riot police, and Chinese men wielding steel pipes and meat cleavers rampaged through the stre...

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Muslim Minority Riots Erupt In China

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING -- Chinese state media says that 156 people have been killed in violent riots in the country's western Xinjiang region. The official Xinhua N...

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Fair and Balanced? Lhasa Vs. Urumqi

Alexander Davenport | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why do rioting Tibetans generate more interest than rioting Uighurs?

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Tibet Riots Due To Failed Chinese Government Policies: Report

Time | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new report from a group of Chinese scholars has for the first time challenged China's official explanation that the deadly riots that broke out acro...

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