Urumqi, 5 years after July 2009 riots

Urumqi, 5 years after July 2009 riots

URUMQI, China - An Uyghur man who fought against the ethnic Han during July 2009 Urumqi riots prays near his home in Urumqi, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, on July 4, 2014.

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