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Silk Road city locked down ahead of torch relay

2008/06/17 03:39:11 @Reuters: International News

KASHGAR, China (Reuters) - China locked down the far-western former Silk Road city of Kashgar on Tuesday in preparation for the passage of the Olympic torch relay through the sensitive region populated by ethnic-minority Muslim Uighurs.
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