wikipedia As the protests in Hong Kong finally begin to wind down, they should thank their lucky stars that the regime didn’t quash their demonstration with soldiers and tanks. It’s no secret that China’s Communist Party is prone to violence. While many might assume that the purges and mass democide are a thing of the past for China, recent reports suggest that the elites in Beijing will not hesitate to execute peaceful protesters in the 21st century. This speculation, and the global attention to Hong Kong, ignores a crucial piece of context: The Chinese government already killed scores of demonstrators in a single incident earlier this year. And it did so under circumstances that are the exact opposite of the situation in Hong Kong — far from the prying eyes of the international media, in a distant and peripheral part of the country that’s home to a restive minority group with a whole different set of grievances against Beijing. In early August, the president of the Germany-based World Uyghur Congress claimed that at least 2,000 members of China’s Uyghur minority had been killed the previous month in and around Elishku, a town in China’s far west.
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