Shaoguan incident

2009 Shaoguan incident
2009 Shaoguan incident
Location	Shaoguan, Guangdong, China
Date	25–26 June 2009
Deaths	at least 2
Injured	118

The Shaoguan incident (Chinese: 韶关事件) was a civil disturbance which took place overnight on 25–26 June 2009 in Guangdong, China. A violent dispute erupted between migrant Uyghurs and Han Chinese workers at a toy factory in Shaoguan as a result of false allegations of the sexual assault of a Han Chinese woman. Groups of Han Chinese set upon Uyghur co-workers, leading to at least two Uyghurs being violently killed by angry Han Chinese men (although other reports indicate a higher death toll),^[2]^[3]^[4] and some 118 people injured,^[1] most of them Uyghurs.^[5]

The event was widely cited as the cause of the July 2009 Ürümqi riots, which some believe began as a peaceful street protest demanding official action over the two Uyghurs who were killed in Shaoguan.^[6] Following trials in October 2009, one person was executed and several others sentenced to terms between life imprisonment and five to seven years.

^ ^a ^b "Han Chinese launch revenge attacks on Uighur property". Xinhua News Agency. 27 June 2009. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
^ Shaoguan, One Year On Archived 5 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine Radio Free Asia, 29 June 2010
^ Watts, Jonathan (11 July 2009) Old suspicions magnified mistrust into ethnic riots in Urumqi Archived 30 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine. The Guardian
^ Discrimination, Mistreatment and Coercion: Uyghurs Face Severe Labor Rights Abuses in China and East Turkestan Archived 2 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine Uyghur Human Rights Project
^ Jacobs, Andrew (15 July 2009). "At a Factory, the Spark for China's Violence". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 23 October 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
^ "China calls Xinjiang riot a plot against its rule". Reuters. 5 July 2009. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 2 July 2017.

[china090607-1] "Han Chinese launch revenge attacks on Uighur property". Xinhua News Agency. 27 June 2009. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2009.

[2] Shaoguan, One Year On Archived 5 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine Radio Free Asia, 29 June 2010

[3] Watts, Jonathan (11 July 2009) Old suspicions magnified mistrust into ethnic riots in Urumqi Archived 30 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine. The Guardian

[4] Discrimination, Mistreatment and Coercion: Uyghurs Face Severe Labor Rights Abuses in China and East Turkestan Archived 2 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine Uyghur Human Rights Project

[5] Jacobs, Andrew (15 July 2009). "At a Factory, the Spark for China's Violence". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 23 October 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2017.

[reut090705-6] "China calls Xinjiang riot a plot against its rule". Reuters. 5 July 2009. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 2 July 2017.

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