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The Shaoguan Mass Incident

A race riot between Han and Uighur workers in a toy factory located in Shaoguan, Guangdong. This would be the cause for the Urumqi riots on July 5, 2009. This post is continuously updated as more become known. ...full story at ESWN

from ESWN on Fri, Jul 17 2009

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14 Jul 09 visit 26 juni 2009. China's GuangDong Province , ShaoGuan city.  »  YouTube
11 Jul 09 visit At the Xuri toy factory in Shaoguan  »  Danwei The Global Post reports on current conditions for Uighur workers at the Xuri toy factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong, where a brawl late last month set the stage for this month's violence in Xinjiang. Link picked by Danwei.org
05 Jul 09 visit The Urumqi Mass Incident  »  ESWN A mass incident occurred in Urumqi (Xinjiang) on July 5, 2009. This is a continuously updated post.
08 Jul 09 visit Work resumes at Shaoguan toy factory  »  Danwei New ExpressJuly 8, 2009 The fight at the Xuri toy factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province that has been called one of the causes of the current unrest in Xinjiang (see yesterday's post) made the cover of today's New Express. A major fight broke out at...
29 Jun 09 visit Shaoguan violence sparked by a rumor  »  Danwei Xinhua reports that Han-Uighur violence in Shaoguan was predicated on a rumor: The brawl left two Xinjiang workers dead and another 118 injured. A post on a local website that said "Six Xinjiang boys raped two innocent girls at the Xuri Toy Factory"...
02 Dec 08 visit 200 workers in S. China city block highway for labor contract dispute  »  People's Daily About 200 workers of a smelting factory gathered and blocked a highway for about two hours in a south China city for labor contract dispute early Monday morning. The employees with Shaoguan Smelting Factory in Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province,...

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