'Freedom and equality' - that's what the Uighurs chanted on the 7th July as they campaigned for information about 'missing' relatives. Protest marches are not appreciated here and very quickly the elite police stopped them dead. 'We want to be treated like the Han! 10,000 Uighur's dead. 10,000 of us!' cries one protester. The Chinese government has been encouraging Han Chinese to move into the Muslim Uighur area since the 1980's. Ever since the Uighurs have been ghettoised and demoted to second class-citizens, the riots that resulted have left Xinjiang irrevocably divided. 'I used to have a lot of Uighur friends. After what happened, I will be scared to come across one' says one Han Chinese woman who was badly beaten by Uighurs during the protests. Authorities now declare they have arrested 1,400 people related to the riot. Yet Uighurs claim that unlawful arrests have been going on for decades. 'TV always shows violence by Uighurs', one man complains 'when the Han attacked Uighurs, nobody mentioned it'. Both Han and Uighur people express hope of living peacefully together. After the riots, this may no longer be possible.