BTW, in China, the uniforms of cops and PLA look almost the same. I can't tell the difference. They are most likely police officers.
Dissidents in China, those that protest peacefully, are usually LOCKED up (and whether they languish and die in prison is a different topic) and not executed.
BTW, if these were execution of Tibetans on non-violent protests, we would have seen them broadcasted in the US again and again.
China would execute criminals for:
Bribery/Corruption
Drug Trafficking
Murder
Rape (not recently but at least in the past they have)
Child molestation (a guy that molested 100+ school age girls, he was a teacher and was executed)
Now, whether all th epeople executed are really guilty is another matter -- sentences are carried out in the AFTERNOON that the appeal is rejected by the highest court. There is no languishing 15 years in prison like Scott Peterson is likely to do in California, it's immediate.
BTW, some of you guys are pathetic on this forum.
You claim to be tough on crime but yet when you see the images of execution, you then blame it on some politically motivated execution :) This is what execution of convicted criminals are in China. One bullet to the back of the head, and the convict have to apologize to the victim's family and pay for the bullet him/herself.
In China, it's not uncommon for wives to murder their husbands, just like it's not uncommon that kids are kidnapped regularly in the United States. The only difference is that the criminals in the US could live in prison for 15 years before execution, in China, it's immediate after the automatic appeals failed.
BTW, for all you supporters of Taiwan, Taiwan does EXACTLY the same thing except they'll offer an injection of morphine first followed by shots fired with a pistol. In Taiwan, criminals are tied to a BED and executed, and it's not public. The appeals process is simliar to China, once the highest court rejected it, it's carried out usually within a month. And Taiwan executes drug traffickers as well, on a regular basis.