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Take Care


A Nuer girl waits to be admitted at a health clinic run by the medical charity Doctors Without Borders in Nasir, Sudan. Tribal violence in south Sudan has killed hundreds of people in recent months and displaced thousands more.


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# Posté le lundi 20 juillet 2009 01:07

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Life on the Road

An elephant walks off the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey train in Anaheim, California, where the circus will perform at the city's Honda Center arena.


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# Posté le lundi 20 juillet 2009 01:01

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A young spectator enjoys the music of the band Turbo Negro during the Openair Frauenfeld Festival in Switzerland.


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# Posté le lundi 20 juillet 2009 00:57

NEW YORK TIMES China

NEW YORK TIMES China
Lu Huakun, 25, pictured here with his fiancée, was beaten to death in the Urumqi riots on July 5. Photo: Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times


Ethnic Violence in Xinjiang, China

Rumbles on the Rim of China's Empire

URUMQI, China — Its name alone indicates what the western region of Xinjiang means to the Chinese state: it translates as New Frontier or New Dominion, a place at the margins of empire. For centuries, the rulers of China have sought to control and shape Xinjiang, much as the dry winds of the vast deserts here sculpt the rocks.

A history exhibition in the main museum in this regional capital goes one step further. “Xinjiang has been an inalienable part of the territory of China,” it asserts, implying that Beijing or Xian or some other imperial capital has for time immemorial held sway over this land at the crossroads of Asian civilizations.

But many Uighurs, a Turkic race of Muslims that is the largest ethnic group among the 20 million people of Xinjiang, have their own competing historical narrative. In it, the region is cast as the Uighurs' homeland, and the ethnic Han, who only began arriving in large numbers after the Communist takeover in 1949, are portrayed as colonizers.

Mechanisms typical of colonial control — the migration of Han, who are China's dominant race, and government policies that support the spread of Han language, culture and economic power — provided tinder, some scholars say, for the conflagration of the past week in Xinjiang.

The fighting quickly turned into the deadliest outbreak of ethnic violence in China in decades, and has forced Uighurs and Han across the region to question not only their relations with each other, but also the relationship of the Chinese state to the frontier, or, as some would put it, the imperial power to the colony.
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# Posté le dimanche 12 juillet 2009 02:30

LE MONDE

LE MONDE
REUTERS/STEFAN WERMUTH


Roger Federer exulte, il soulève son 6e trophée de Wimbledon, son 15e Grand Chelem. Un record.



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# Posté le dimanche 05 juillet 2009 16:46