ARTICLE: At a Factory, the Spark for China's Violence, By ANDREW JACOBS, New York Times, July 15, 2009

A far more detailed and revealing account of the original spark for the Uigher-Han riots in Urumqi: the Guangdong toy factor into which 800 UIgher migrant workers were placed by a government program. In effect, there was a mini-riot there before the bigger ones in Xinjiang.