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CBS not only skipped Italian coverage; it also decided not to have a reporter file from Xinjiang Province in China where 156 were killed in Sunday's ethnic rioting between local Uighurs and Han Chinese. Both ABC's Clarissa Ward and NBC's Ian Williams did make the trip to Urumqi as government security forces enforced calm. ABC's Ward observed "a mob of Han Chinese armed with sticks and bats viciously beating a Uighur man before turning their anger towards us, outraged by what they call biased foreign coverage of recent events." The Beijing government blocked "all Internet, text messages and international phone calls," Ward added. As for NBC's Williams, he joined in the government-organized tour for journalists to a major hospital where most of those injured with head and stab wounds turned out to be Han. He later checked out the Uighur section: "Even before the violence Urumqi was segregated. Now these poorer neighborhoods are sealed off by riot police."
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