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Protesters to China’s Tyrants: ‘Communist Party, Step Down!’
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Protesters to China’s Tyrants: ‘Communist Party, Step Down!’

Courageous Voices Rise Against Oppression in the Heart of China

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Thomas Walker-Werth
Dec 02, 2022
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On Thursday, November 25, 2022, ten people were killed and nine more were injured in a fire in a residential tower in Urumqi, a city in China’s Xinjiang province.1 Although such fires are common in China (thirty-eight people died in another fire in Anyang just three days earlier), the Urumqi fire exposed the human cost of China’s unjust “zero-COVID” poli…

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