Chinese Ethnic Riots

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  • July 8: An armed police officer stands in front of an armored vehicle mobilized to seal off a street in Urumqi, China.
  • July 8: Chinese paramilitary police patrol in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province.
  • July 8: Uighur residents are seen behind a barricade in an Uigur neighborhood in Urumq.
  • July 8: Chinese paramilitary police patrol in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province. China flooded the capital of western Xinjiang province with security forces Wednesday after ethnic riots left at least 156 dead.
  • July 8: Chinese paramilitary police patrol in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province.
  • July 8: Zhang Xiangying, a Han Chinese victim of ethnic violence, recuperates at People's Hospital in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province. Ethnic clashes have paralyzed Urumqi over the past several days, with minority Uighur and Han Chinese mobs roaming the streets and attacking each other.
  • July 8: Chinese security forces, center left, get into formation on the People's Square in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province. China flooded the capital of western Xinjiang province with security forces Wednesday, and President Hu Jintao cut short a visit to the G8 summit as Beijing tries to stem a tide of ethnic clashes in the wake of a riot that left at least 156 dead.
  • July 8: A Uighur man holds up a metal board he claims marked with blood stains a day after a Han Chinese mob attacked the Uighur neighborhood on Tuesday in Urumqi, China.
  • July 8: Uighur residents gather behind a barricade set up to fight off attacks by Han Chinese mob in Urumqi, China. Sobbing Muslim women scuffled with riot police, and Chinese men wielding steel pipes and meat cleavers rampaged through the streets as ethnic tensions worsened in China's oil-rich Xinjiang territory, prompting the president to cut short a summit trip abroad Wednesday.