 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 the deaths of 13 Uyghur migrants. everybody was happy until the Han workers got angry.
The incident began when a group of Han workers at the factory accused Uyghur co @-@ workers of raping a Han female. The Han workers then attacked the Uygh