China executes 9 Uighurs over ethnic riots Nov 10, 2009
The July 5 violence in western China began after police broke up a demonstration by Uighur students demanding an investigation into a deadly fight at a factory in the southern Chinese city of Shaoguan in which Han workers killed two Uighurs. The Uighur crowd then rampaged through the western city's southern neighborhoods, hunting down Han residents, smashing vehicles and burning Han shops. (MSNBC -- International)
* China sentences six more to death over ethnic rioting Oct 16, 2009
The rioting on July 5 apparently began after a protest over the deaths of two Uighurs in the southern city of Shaoguan. Kadeer arrived in New Zealand on Monday after being invited by the Green Party. (Taipei Times, Taiwan)
China: Death For Man In Brawl Linked To Riots Oct 10, 2009
The nine other suspects were sentenced to prison terms from five to eight years for the violence at the Xuri Toy Factory in Shaoguan, Xinhua said. According to reports, the fight started after a Han Chinese girl entered a factory dormitory where Uighur workers were staying, leading to a rumor that she had been sexually assaulted. (CBS News -- World)
One sentenced to death over China factory brawl Oct 10, 2009
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Xinjiang migrant workers head for coastal factories Aug 7, 2009
On June 26, a massive brawl in a toy factory in Shaoguan, south China's Guangdong Province, left two Uygur migrant workers dead and more than 100 injured. Police said Wednesday they had arrested a man who allegedly spread rumors by exaggerating the death toll of the brawl that were later used by the World Uygur Congress (WUC) to trigger the Urumqi riot. (Xinhuanet, China)
Xinjiang crisis creates ripples abroad Jul 31, 2009
Riots were reportedly ignited in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital, on July 5, as college students and other citizens protested against the death of two Uyghur migrant workers in a factory located in Shaoguan, Guangdong province. But Beijing claims Uyghur terrorist units from southern and western Xinjiangg infiltrated Urumqi before July 5 and instigated the riots. (Asia Times Online)
An Ethnic Struggle in China Goes Global Jul 22, 2009
Not finding work at home, and prevented from travelling abroad, many of these Uighur men have been forced to look for work across China, leading to ethnic rivalry of the kind seen recently in the Xuji toy factory in Shaoguan, Guandong. Some believe this contagion could have been stopped at the border. (YaleGlobal Online Magazine, CT)
China Says Recent Urumqi Unrest Was Premeditated Jul 20, 2009
The initial protest was centered on calls for an investigation into the June 25 deaths of Uighur factory workers killed in a brawl with Han Chinese in the southern city of Shaoguan. State media reports said two people died. (CBS News -- World)
NYT: Vicious brawl lit fuse for China riots Jul 17, 2009
SHAOGUAN, China - The first batch of Uighurs, 40 young men and women from the far western region of Xinjiang, arrived at the Early Light Toy Factory here in May, bringing their buoyant music and speaking a language that was incomprehensible to their fellow Han Chinese workers ... Murderous rampage 1,800 miles awayTen days later and 1,800 miles away, the clash in Shaoguan provoked a far greater spasm of violence in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region ... Shaoguan officials, who said that... (MSNBC -- International)
Beijing can't bury the Xinjiang story Jul 17, 2009
The migrant workers that died in a brawl in Shaoguan, Guangdong province, were part of a labor force export scheme aimed at reducing social tensions in the most remote parts of Xinjiang. The two Muslim workers were among the 4,100 people from Shufu county under Kashgar city that were "exported" by local authorities to work as migrant labor in the manufacturing hubs of China's east and south. (Asia Times Online)
'King of Xinjiang' faces blame for riots Jul 16, 2009
A contact of the author, a Han Chinese who grew up in Xinjiang and who still has family members in Urumqi, says that Wang should have known that an event like the July 5 violence was certain to occur after brawls between Uyghur and Han Chinese workers at a toy factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong province, made national news at the end of June ... The source stated that prior to the July 5 incident, he had even said to friends that although the Shaoguan brawl would definitely lead to riots in... (Asia Times Online)
Why the Uighurs Feel Left Out of China's Boom Jul 15, 2009
The 800 Uighurs at the toy factory in the Guangdong city of Shaoguan were part of a government program to send minority workers to the coast. "They can't get work in their own province, so they go to the far corner of the country to seek jobs," says Dru Gladney, an expert on Islam in China and president of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College. (Time.com)
* Rumors, lies and ethnic hatred: Welcome to Shaoguan, China Jul 13, 2009
Rumors, lies and ethnic hatred: Welcome to Shaoguan, China. By Jonathan Watts THE GUARDIAN , SHAOGUAN, CHINA Monday, Jul 13, 2009, Page 9 ... Shaoguan has seen an influx of migrants that has swollen the population to 3 million. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
* Chinese oppression of minorities Jul 12, 2009
At 11pm on June 25 in Shaoguan City in Guangdong Province, a fight broke out between Han Chinese workers and Uighur workers over rumors that a Uighur had raped a Han Chinese girl at a factory. The result was that two Uighur workers were killed and 118 people injured, 79 of them Uighurs. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Government: evidence shows Rebiya Kadeer masterminds violence Jul 11, 2009
The riot, which killed 156 people, was instigated and masterminded by Kadeer, following the brawl between Han and Uyghur workers in a toy factory in Shaoguan, south China's Guangdong Province on June 26, said Hou Hanmin, a local official. Soundbite: Hou Hanmin, head of the publicity department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Xinjiang regional committee. (Xinhuanet, China)
No question, Hu's in charge Jul 10, 2009
Uyghur migrant workers - including those in the toy factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong, whose protests on June 26 led to Sunday's violence - are said to be fearful for their safety. If Hu had followed through on his foreign tour, it is not hard to imagine that he would become a target of public accusations of indifference. (Asia Times Online)
* Internet plays key role in Uighur unrest Jul 9, 2009
State media reports said only two people died in the June 25 fight between Uighur and Han Chinese workers at a toy factory in southern Shaoguan city. In the days that followed, however, graphic photos spread on the Internet purportedly showing at least a half-dozen bodies of Uighurs, with Han Chinese X members of Chinas majority ethnic group X standing over them, arms raised in victory. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Ethnic tensions taboo Jul 9, 2009
On 26 June Han and Uighurs at a toy factory in the Guangdong town of Shaoguan fought each other for hours, leaving at least two dead and 118 injured ... The Guangzhou Daily recently reported that in Shaoguan, repairs to the assembly line, dormitories and canteen needed after the 26 June fighting at the toy factory had already been completed. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Netizens condemn biased reporting on riots Jul 9, 2009
It only enforces the misunderstanding of China's ethnic minority policy," the post said. Questions also surfaced over why the Western media failed to explain that tens of thousands of Uygurs work in big cities all over China. China is developing its market economy and everyone has the legal right to move freely and work in a place of their own choice, without discrimination of racial background. "If Uygur are segregated and discriminated as some western media claimed, how can these Uygurs be... (Xinhuanet, China)
Mobs spread ethnic strife in western China Jul 9, 2009
Uighurs have said this week's rioting was triggered by the June 25 deaths of Uighur factory workers killed in a brawl in the southern Chinese city of Shaoguan. State-run media have said two workers died, but many Uighurs believe more were killed and said the incident was an example of how little the government cared about them. (Rhinelander Daily News, WI)
* Urumqi descends into mob violence Jul 8, 2009
Sundays riot started as a demonstration by 1,000 to 3,000 people protesting the deaths of Uighur workers killed in a brawl in the southern city of Shaoguan last month. Also See. (Taipei Times, Taiwan)
Inside the unquiet west Jul 8, 2009
Local security agencies in the city of Shaoguan have been accused by rights groups of standing by inactively as the Uyghurs were singled out for harm. Once news of this injustice reached Urumqi, protesters came out to express their disgust at the government's forced depopulation of Uyghurs and their ensuing ill-treatment in China's manufacturing heartlands. (Asia Times Online)
Ghost of Marx haunts China's riots Jul 8, 2009
On Sunday, more than 300 ethnic Uyghurs - mostly Sunni Muslims - staged a protest in Urumqi's People's Square to demand an investigation into a June 26 brawl at a toy factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong province ... The brawl in the Shaoguan factory on June 26 was started by a post on an Internet website that claimed at least two female Han workers were raped by Uyghur migrant workers, many of whom work at the factory ... In the aftermath of the Shaoguan brawl, Guangdong party secretary Wang Yang... (Asia Times Online)
Accounts of violence Jul 7, 2009
The Uighurs were angry over ethnic violence last month in the city of Shaoguan in southern Guangdong province, when Han Chinese beat and killed Uighur workers. Uighur people are in a great need of help and we ask the international community to condemn China's killing of innocent Uighurs, the assimilation of the Uighur people and the discrimination Uighur people suffer by the Chinese. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Labor Violations Exacerbate Ethnic Tensions in South China Jul 7, 2009
The Shaoguan factory is part of Early Light International Holdings Ltd., which produces toys for numerous multinational toy brands ... In the investigation, it was also discovered that the factory had transferred many orders to the Shaoguan factory which had lower wages of 28 RMB ($4. (PR Newswire)
China seals cities battered by ethnic fighting Jul 7, 2009
Internet social platforms and chat programs appeared to have unified Uighurs in anger over the way Chinese officials had handled the earlier brawl, which took place in late June thousands of miles away in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province. There, according to the state news agency, Xinhua, Han workers rampaged through a Uighur dormitory, killing at least two Uighurs and injuring many others. (Boston Globe)
Accusations against Uygur workers that sparked Chinese riot Jul 7, 2009
In Shaoguan, Guangdong province, in the south of China, Uygur workers were set on by Han Chinese workers after claims that six Xinjiang boys had "raped two innocent girls". Two Uygurs were killed and 118 people reportedly injured before local police said a disgruntled Han Chinese former worker had confessed to "faking the information to express his discontent". (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Urumqi counts dead, awaits crackdown Jul 7, 2009
The rioting began with a peaceful protest against the government's handling of a clash last month between Han Chinese and Uyghur workers at a toy factory in Shaoguan in southern Guangdong province in which two Uyghurs were killed ... "After the [Shaoguan] incident, the three forces abroad strove to whip this up and seized it as an opportunity to attack us, inciting street protests," Baikeli said ... Raxit added that tens of thousands of demonstrators had gathered in every Uyghur neighborhood in... (Asia Times Online)
Civilians, police officer killed in Xinjiang unrest Jul 6, 2009
" Nur Bekri, chairman of the Xinjiang regional government, said in a televised speech Monday morning that three forces of terrorism, separatism and extremism made use of a fight between Uygur and Han ethnic workers in a toy factory in Guangdong Province on June 26, in which two Uygur workers died, to creat chaos. Nur Bekri said the bodies of the two Uygur workers in the factory fight have been sent back by plane to Xinjiang for burial. Police in Xinjiang and Guangdong are jointly investigating... (Xinhuanet, China)
Scores killed in China protests Jul 6, 2009
The Uighurs were reportedly angry over an ethnic clash last month in the city of Shaoguan in southern Guangdong province. UIGHURS AND XINJIANG Uighurs are ethnically Turkic Muslims They make up about 8m of the 20m population China re-established control in 1949 after crushing short-lived state of East Turkestan Since then, large-scale immigration of Han Chinese Uighurs fear erosion of traditional culture Sporadic violence since 1991. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Man held over China ethnic clash Jun 30, 2009
The fight took place in Shaoguan city, Guangdong province, and saw both sides wielding iron bars, leaving two Uighurs dead and 118 people injured. About 600 Uighur workers are now living in temporary accommodation away from the factory. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
China steel makers rush to link up Mar 18, 2009
Last year, Baosteel Group, Chinas top steel mill, took over Shaoguan Iron & Steel Group and Guangzhou Iron & Steel Group. Wuhan Iron & Steel, parent of Wuhan Steel, bought into smaller rival Liuzhou Iron & Steel. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
