China Dispatches Troops to Deal with Ethnic Strife
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China sends troops into Urumqi city to deal with civil unrest.
After three days of violence and one hundred and fifty six people dead the Chinese government has sent thousands of troops to deal with the ethnic fighting.
The unrest comes from clashes between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese in western China. It began Sunday when up to 3,000 protesters gathered and protested the deaths of Uighur factory workers killed in a riot in southern China on June 25.
Tensions have been simmering quite some time as the Muslims are feeling shut out of Chinese society while some are pushing for independence.
