[AlaskaErik]

The disturbances come after a year of rising tensions between the dominant Han Chinese authorities and the Uighur ethnic minority - the historical ethnic majority in Xinjiang - who say they have been socially and economically marginalised by Beijing's development policies.

Translation...these diaperheads aren't being given welfare and special privileges as their brethren in Europe are. I'm no big fan of Red China, but I agree with their crackdown on these troublemakers.

[rmlew]

You are right. It has absolutely nothing to do with Han colonization and subjugation of East Turkestan, the “redevelopment” or historic Kashgar, or the recent murder of dozens of Uyghurs in Guandong, after a Han woman was purportedly raped by a a Uyghur or Hui.