Is it related to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_riots" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_rio...</a>
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Xinjiang is my hometown, the riots is terrible, many people died in the event(most in the first 2 days), I was impressed becuase I know one man's two twin girls killed in the riots, and the angry man orginized many workers in the next day's riots(revenge...)<p>It's a complex thing, as I know, there's too many media misleading, in both side.
Somehow the scariest part was the erasure.<p><i>Articles that praised Tiyip’s achievements are now being systematically deleted from the internet. His name and legacy are being erased, even from the list of presidents of Xinjiang University. Ironically, Sheng Shicai, the Guomindang leader who ruled Xinjiang from 1933-1944, who was described as one of the most evil traitors by the Communist Party, is still listed as a president of the school from 1942-1944. Yet, there is now no trace of Tashpolat Tiyip’s name.</i><p>Almost a caricature of an authoritarian approach to dealing with an undesirable.
The circumstances of this are very strange. What's alarming is that I don't understand why the government would take such extreme action on someone who doesn't appear to be active in any political capacity. At least not active enough to come up in any search engine.<p>Upon further digging, I did find more information this notion of 'two-faceness' from an article in 2017, around the time he was arrested:<p>-------<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-security/fellow-uighurs-should-beware-of-two-faced-people-in-separatism-fight-official-says-idUSKBN17C0HJ" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-security/f...</a><p>In a commentary published by the official Xinjiang Daily on Monday, Yasin Sidik, a senior official from Kashgar city in Xinjiang, urged fellow ethnic Uighur cadres to “bravely stand at the forefront against separatism”.<p>“We must stand out and reveal ‘two-faced’ people, thoroughly seize bad elements out from the masses, clean them out,” he said.<p>-------
So what's new? China sometimes murders people. What can be done? Boycott Chinese products? There aren't enough people who will give up their favorite electronics to make a difference, and most diplomatic currency is used on trade deals, Taiwan, and various disputed islands.<p>What ultimately motivates Xi and the Party? What are their objectives?<p>Are they simply doing whatever they think will increase China's relative power? And they think unity — suppression of multi-culturalism and dissent — will serve that interest? Or have they gamed out a strategy for 50 or 100 years that's more subtle, and this totalitarian BS is just a phase they'll outgrow?
According to Amnesty International, after 2 year suspended death sentence, he could be executed in September of this year: <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ASA1710062019ENGLISH.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ASA1710062019ENGL...</a>