They were generally concerned about the treatment of their minority by the Han majority.
In recent years there has been some intermarriage between Jino and the Han majority who make up 92 percent of all Chinese.
The people of Xinjiang are ethnically distinct from China's Han majority, and have a long history of distrust of the central government.
Typically, ethnic minorities are allowed to marry earlier than members of the Han ethnic majority, and, most important, to have more children.
With a Han majority, it is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse provinces in China.
By definition, these ethnic minority groups, together with the Han majority, make up the greater Chinese nationality known as Zhonghua Minzu.
More than 190 people are killed and 1,700 - mostly from the Han majority - are injured.
Hong Kong's Han majority originate mainly from the Guangzhou and Taishan regions in Guangdong province.
They compelled conformity to an ethnic policy wherein the Mongols and the Manchus were accorded higher social status than the Han majority whom they dominated.
Originally the indigenous speech of the Han majority in China, Chinese forms one of the branches of the Sino-Tibetan language family.