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Barbara Demick, Deadly Clash in China: An Ambush by Uighurs or a Government Massacre?  Los Angeles Times, Aug 8, 2014 (available now) www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg ... 20140808-story.html
 
 Note:
 (a) “According to official accounts, 96 people died in the July 28 clash in Shache, also known as Yarkand, making it the deadliest incident of ethnic violence in China in five years. Uighurs * * * say the death toll was much greater. Some are describing it as a massacre.
 
 Yarkland County
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarkant_County
 (lit. Cliff city; or Sache [新疆维吾尔自治区喀什地区] 莎车县)
 (b) “Nury Turkel, a Washington-based attorney who is active with the World Uyghur Conference 世界维吾尔代表大会 [2004- ]”
 (c) China “identified the mastermind as Nuramat SAWUT  努拉買提·薩吾提”
 
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