Experiments with truth: 9/4/09

    • Hundreds, possibly thousands, of members of China’s Han majority marched peacefully in the city center of Urumqi to protest a series of mysterious syringe attacks that may be linked to ethnic rioting that took place in July and killed nearly 200 people.

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