A Tourist in a Troubled Land – China Rants

asiasentinel.com — Earlier this week, courts in Xinjiang sentenced six men to death and a seventh to life imprisonment for murder, arson and robbery during riots that swept the region in early July, leaving nearly 200 persons dead. Paul Mozur, a Taiwan-based correspondent, traveled through the area shortly after the riots. This is the first of a three-part report.

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