bulls in the china shop
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About 200 ethnic Uighurs, who are a Muslim minority, faced off against police to protest over the arrest of 1,434 people over Sunday’s unrest.
Groups of ethnic Han Chinese have now armed themselves with batons and stones and have gathered in Urumqi.
Beijing and the Uighurs blame each other for the outbreak of violence.
Witnesses to Sunday’s protests said Uighur protesters attacked vehicles before turning on local Han Chinese.
The unrest was apparently sparked by a brawl between Uighurs and Han Chinese several weeks earlier in a toy factory thousands of miles away in Guandong province.
Officials say 156 people - mostly ethnic Han Chinese - died in Sunday’s violence and more than 1,000 were injured. Uighur groups say many more have died, claiming 90% of the dead were Uighurs.
