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THE DEATHS of at least 140 people during riots over the weekend in Urumqi, capital of the Chinese province of Xinjiang, makes this one of the most serious clashes to have occurred in China since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. Yesterday’s dramatic scaling up of the deaths from three to 140, together with the many injured and arrested and a crackdown on news from the city makes it imperative that an independent inquiry is held into it, as called for by Amnesty International.
