“Who is to say some muslim terror group might not take out that dam.”
The Uighur are not a fundamentalist Muslim group and there is not much support for them in the Uighur areas. The Uighur are not Arabs, not Turks, not Afghans, not Pakistani and not North African. They are as old, if not older, in the land of Xinjiang than the Han Chinese. THAT, NOT their form of Islam, is what sets them apart, and which they seek to preserve, and like the Tibetans which the Han Chinese want to destroy by cultural genocide. The Uighur separatists are not going to blow up a dam in central China. What they are about is being Uighur, NOT Chinese, and of which being Muslim is only one part.
They go way back to here:
The Curse OF The Red-Headed Mummy
They were in their homeland way before any Chinese. As late as the 1300's there were still Caucasian only graveyards there.
Genetic Testing Reveals Awkward Truth About Xinjiang’s Famous Mummies (Caucasian)
"URUMQI, China - After years of controversy and political intrigue, archaeologists using genetic testing have proven that Caucasians roamed China’s Tarim Basin 1,000 years before East Asian people arrived."