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One Uighur Man’s Journey in Two Cultures

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A Uighur vendor pushes his cart of watermelons past Chinese soldiers on patrol in Urumqi in northwest China’s Xinjiang province on July 15, 2009. Security remained tight in Urumqi’s Muslim Uighur district 10 days after strong ethnic violence broke out on July 5 and riot police maintained their presence and kept control of the area’s main bazaar.

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