Han-Uighur tension in China''s south rises

Video: Han-Uighur divide widens

 

 
 Violence widens China’s ethnic Han-Uighur rift 
 

As the Chinese government tries to control the situation in Xinjiang following riots there, critics say Beijing’s policies are partly to blame for the outbreak of ethnic violence.

Fighting between ethnic Han and Muslim Uighur factory workers in the industrial south is said to have sparked the Xinjiang riots. Now the two groups are becoming increasingly separate, as Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan reports from Shaoguan in Guangdong province.