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| image = | caption = | location = Shaoguan, Guangdong | coordinates = | date = 25 June 2009 | time = | timezone = | type = | fatalities = at least 2 (Uyghur estimate at least 100) | injuries = 118〔 }} The Shaoguan incident was a civil disturbance which took place overnight on 25/26 June 2009 in Guangdong province, China. A violent dispute erupted between migrant Uyghurs and Han workers at a toy factory in Shaoguan as a result of allegations of the sexual assault of a Han female. Groups of Han set upon Uyghur co-workers, leading to at least two Uyghurs being killed, (Uyghur workers who witnessed the incident report at least 100 dead and 400 wounded) and some 118 people injured. The event was widely cited as the trigger event for July 2009 Ürümqi riots, which ostensibly started as a peaceful street protest demanding official action over the two Uyghurs who died in Shaoguan. Following trials in October 2009, one person was executed and several others sentenced to terms between life imprisonment and five to seven years. ==Background== The factory where the incident took place is the Xuri ("Early Light") Toy Factory (), owned by Hong Kong based Early Light International (Holdings) Ltd., the largest toy manufacturer in the world.〔 (Pg 2 )〕 The company's Shaoguan factory in the Wujiang district employs some 16,000 workers. At the behest of the Guangdong authorities, it hired 800 workers from Kashgar, in Xinjiang as part of an ethnic program which relocated 200,000 young Uyghurs since the start of 2008. According to ''The Guardian'', most workers sign a one- to three-year contract then travel to factory dormitories in the south; in addition to their salaries ranging from 1,000 yuan to 1,400 yuan a month, many get free board and lodging. Most of these Kashgars are away from home to work for the first time.〔 The ''Far Eastern Economic Review'' said Guangdong authorities initiated a controversial plan to ship () workers to Guangdong factories amid continuing labour shortages. The young workers, whose families have charged that they were forced to send their children south, often lack even basic Chinese language skills and find it difficult to fit in with the dominant Han culture."〔 ''The New York Times'' quoted ''Xinjiang Daily'' saying in May that 70 percent of the young Uyghurs had "signed up for employment voluntarily." However, Kashgar residents say the families of those who refuse to go are threatened with fines of up to six months' worth of a villager's income.〔 An official in charge of ethnic and religious affairs in Guangdong said that the province had hired Uygurs, aged from 18 to 29, in May. A small group of Uyghurs arrived on 2 May, and workers at the factory remarked that relations between the two groups deteriorated as the number of Uyghurs increased.〔 State media confirmed that all the workers were from Shufu County.〔 China Labor Watch reported that workers at the Shaoguan factory, where the Uyghurs were employed, earned 28 yuan per day compared with 41.3 yuan in its factory in Shenzhen. They noted that rights of workers, Han and Uyghur alike, were frequently violated by verbal abuse from factory supervisors, unpaid overtime, poor dormitory conditions and illegal labour contracts. Li Qiang, executive director of China Labor Watch said that low pay, long hours and poor working conditions combined with the inability to communicate with their colleagues exacerbated deeply held mistrust between the Han and Uyghurs.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shaoguan incident」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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