China Protest

Heavily-armed special police officers face off a crowd of Uighur residents after they staged a protest in Urumqi, capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Tuesday, July 7 , 2009. Ethnic Uighurs scuffled with armed police Tuesday in a fresh protest in the western region of Xinjiang, where at least 156 people have been killed and more than 1,400 people arrested in western China’s worst ethnic violence in decades. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)