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 Han and 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.
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