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Report From Urumqi: Thousands of Chinese Troops Enter City Torn by Ethnic Clashes
Thursday, July 9, 2009 :Thousands of Chinese troops have flooded into the regional capital of the country's western-most Xinjiang province following bloody clashes between the city's Han Chinese and Uighur populations. Four days after the violence that left at least 150 dead and over a thousand injured, reports indicate an unsteady calm has returned to the city of Urumqi. We go to Urumqi to speak with Al Jazeera English correspondent Melissa Chan.
She’s the Beijing correspondent for Al Jazeera English and has been reporting from Urumqi since Monday.
Melissa Chan, Beijing correspondent for Al Jazeera English. She is currently reporting from the city of Urumqi.
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