During a four-hour melee in a walkway between factory dormitories, Han and Uighur workers bludgeoned one another with fire extinguishers, paving stones and lengths of steel shorn from bed frames. By dawn, when the police finally intervened, two Uighur men had been fatally wounded and 120 other people were injured, most of them Uighurs, according to the authorities.

"People were so vicious, they just kept beating the dead bodies," said one man who witnessed the fighting, which he said involved more than a thousand workers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/world/asia/16china.html?ref=global-home

Workers and problems, some of the growing pains of industrialism. The U.S. founded unions and other labor and ethnic laws.

There seems to be an underlying flaw in the world's human rights policy.
I would expect the same thing in the U.S. as big business drives wages down and unemployment up.

Oh but you would not need a union in China, its a Commie worker's paradise isn't it?

I dunno, after reading the article it seems to me like you could get Martin Scorsese, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson and Leo DiCaprio together and make a movie called "The Gangs of Shaoguan and Urumqi."

The beliefs of the Uighers about Han and Han about Uighers seem very similar in kind to Polish views about Jews, white Americans about African-Americans, and on and on.

A worker's paradise may be possible somewhere, sometime, but a paradise that involves us & them doesn't seem a likely place for paradise at any time.

Nichole