CHINA: FOUR MORE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR URUMQI RIOT

A Chinese court sentenced four more people to death for their part in bloody ethnic rioting in July last year in Urumqi, the capital of far western Xinjiang region, state media reported.
The new trial brings the number of death sentences for the rioting to at least 26, of which at least nine have already been carried out.
Judging from the names, the four sentenced to death are all Uighurs, a Muslim, Turkic-speaking people native to Xinjiang. Many Uighurs resent an influx of Han Chinese that has left them accounting for only half the population of their homeland.