China Official Threatens Death Penalty After Riots - NYTimes.comEthnic Uighurs waited with sticks behind a barricade in their neighborhood in Urumqi on Wednesday.Credit...Nir Elias/Reuters URUMQI, China � As the desert region of Xinjiang in northwest China settled into tense stillness after three days of deadly ethnic violence, a Communist Party leader from the region said that those directly responsible for the killings of 156 people in the initial rioting on
