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student Brooke Wilberger visited the
university Monday and brought
3,000 pink bracelets with her.
Cammy Wilberger said the
bracelets are intended to keep
Brooke’s story in the spotlight.
An anonymous donor from Eu
gene originally donated 20,000 of the
bracelets with an additional 25,000
being produced. The bracelets,
which carry a tip-line phone number
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the Brooke Wilberger Search and
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Brooke disappeared May 24 while
she was working for her sister and
brother-in-law at the Corvallis apart
ment complex they managed.
She vanished from the complex’s
parking lot, leaving behind her flip
flops, her purse, cell phone and the
bucket of soapy water she was using
to clean the light fixtures.
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Riots break out following
ethnic tensions in China
Eighteen jailed after a traffic accident instigates
violence; residents say seven are dead, 42 injured
BYAUDRAANG
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LANGCHENGGANG, China —
Police by the thousands patrolled
this central Chinese town Monday
and residents hunkered down in
their homes after deadly street
fights between members of the
country’s main ethnic group and a
Muslim minority.
On Monday, minivans with loud
speakers strapped to their roofs
drove through the dirt roads of
Langchenggang and neighboring
villages in Henan province.
As many as 5,000 people fought
with sticks and burned several
houses over the weekend in vio
lence between Hui Muslims and
members of the Han ethnic majori
ty, according to Langchenggang res
idents.
The fighting killed seven people
and injured 42, according to resi
dents and the government.
Authorities imposed martial law
on the area in Zhongmou County
near the city of Zhengzhou, resi
dents said.
Eighteen people were arrested,
the government said late Monday in
its first official word on the fighting.
The statement, carried by the Xin
hua News Agency, didn’t mention
the ethnicities of the rioters.
The government said the violence
began after members of two fami
lies from separate villages fought
over a traffic dispute.
“Afterward, residents of both vil
lages assembled with weapons,” the
Xinhua report said. “One villager
was beaten to death on the spot and
two died in the hospital one day
later. ”
A spokesman for the county gov
ernment, Liang Songzhou, said the
traffic dispute involved a collision
between two farm vehicles, one
driven by a Han and the other by
a Hui.
Today’s Hui are descended from
ethnic Chinese who converted to Is
lam generations ago. Han Chinese
make up more than 90 percent
of China’s 1.3 billion people.
China has 55 officially recognized
ethnic groups.
China suffers occasional ethnic
tensions, though the level of vio
lence isn’t clear because the com
munist government, eager to main
tain the narrative of unity it has
long trumpeted, routinely suppress
es reports of social conflict.
Tensions are worse in China’s
poor countryside, home to some
800 million people. Economic com
petition, disputes over scarce farm
land and control of lucrative gov
ernment posts often combine to
cause unrest.
In December 2000, at least five
Hui were shot and killed by police
during protests in the eastern
province of Shandong after a dis
pute over a Han butcher advertising
“Muslim pork.” Muslim dietary
laws forbid the eating of pork.
On Monday, police officers lined
the roads into Langchenggang be
ginning six miles from town. They
stopped cars at checkpoints and
turned some away. At least four for
eign reporters who visited the area
were detained.
Residents sat outside shabby
brick homes beside piles of drying
corn and watched silently as trucks
and tour buses full of police officers
roared through the main road that
runs through the villages.
There was no visible unrest,
though shattered glass was strewn
across the road in Weitan, a village
adjacent to Langchenggang. Vil
lagers said the debris was left over
from an altercation between sol
diers and a group of men, but it
wasn’t clear whether the men were
Hui or Han.
In its report, The New York Times
said the violence erupted after a
Han girl was struck and killed by a
Hui taxi driver.
An accountant in the town who
would give only his surname, Liu,
said the fighting began after three
Hui men in a car beat up a 17-year
old Han boy who blocked the street.
Liu said that confrontation escalat
ed until a group of 400 to 500 Hui
came from a nearby town and large
scale clashes took place.
“A lot of people were carrying
clubs to fight. They set fire to sever
al houses,” said another Langcheng
gang resident surnamed Liu, who
was not related to the accountant.
“Right now, there are lots of police.
The local government is allowing
residents to move around, but
everyone is afraid of going out.”
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