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Barbara Stephens (journalist)

Barbara Stephens (August 30, 1922 – July 31, 1947) was an American journalist who died in a mysterious plane crash in Gansu, China in 1947. Stephens was investigating the Kuomintang treatment of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang province when in 1947 she traveled to Ili to report on the Soviet-backed Second East Turkestan Republic. That year she was killed in the plane crash on a flight from Ürümqi to Lanzhou via Hami; this plane crash also killed a Chinese artist, a politician and the son of a British member of Parliament.

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• ▸David LaChapelle
• ▸Brahma Jinalaya, Lakkundi
• ▸James J. Robinson

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