Disgusted!
Yes, a small bomb did go off in a marketplace, specifically at a time when the Han tended to shop there. But did it justify the obvious build-up of Chinese military strength on the streets and the imminent attacks on the Muslim religion itself – headed by the same enforced assimilation of Uighur children that Henry Reynolds article on what might have been the Australian model for the Han highlights so brilliantly.
Could it be that your over-enthusiasm for all things (Han) Chinese blinded you to the blatant unfairness of this Maoist take-over of this Turkic nation for its mineral wealth? Indeed the largest statue in the world of Mao himself glowers over the square in Kashgar where Uighurs and Han danced in the evenings – separately but peaceably.
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