Boy holding guitar in violence-hit Urumqi

Boy holding guitar in violence-hit Urumqi

URUMQI, China - A boy holds a guitar on a rooftop overlooking a slum crowded with mud-walled houses in the Xinjiang region's capital Urumqi. The city appears to have resumed business as usual two weeks after bloody riots between ethnic Uyghurs and Han Chinese, China's majority ethnic group, but problems including economic disparities and mutual aversions between the ethnic groups still remain.

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  • ILEA001135485
  • Registered date
  • 2009/7/18 00:00:00
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  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
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  • 2009 Kyodo News
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