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"I may be right."......... No. your premise rests on there being some way to look at a picture of a face (not even directly into the face) and determining the character of the person in the picture. That did surprise me coming from you.

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" It is instructive, perhaps, that you have nothing to say about the other points I uncovered or added to the thread." ........

No again. Your other assertions rely on biased presumptions that are contradicted by the evidence that is presented. It is of course fine to take a position that the Chinese always lie but that is not a basis for wanting folks to believe that this is anything other than what is presented. PRC has crime, including murder. And, if the PRC wante to discourage rebellious actions why bother to take pictures mis-identifying the crimes committed?

As I said, you're smarter than this. But parlor games are fun.

Because of the undeniable record of China with respect to fair trials, transparency, due process, not to mention the dank record of World Communism in general since 1917, quite unfortunately the burden of proof exists upon you, that rather than to indulge in armchair speculation on this thread, but instead, to contribute to the holistic search for truth here. I offered several points based on scholarly research that, as you will, help fill in the blanks over and above what we had already established. As a result of that work, I have a Chinese (Tibetan?) name, supposedly, of one of those executed on that day. Some of the information I gathered and presented is contradictory, some of it is based on deeper instinct developed through my own years of experience in these kinds of things as well as that region of the world, some partial in nature, awaiting additional clarifications, confirmations or additions. At any rate, all of it is new. One of the points that I question regards the clothes the executed are wearing. If this is anywhere near Lhasa, why are they not in the garb of the central Gonganju facility which processes such public executions in Tibet, ie. w/ number on the chest (clothes), etc? Why is the execution primarily witnessed by overwhelmingly (from the photos) Chinese military and police, rather than involving more civilians who often are allowed to witness these. I suppose you are going to deny that every Chinese with the sign attached "murderer" or "thief", kneeling before the abyss, in the Peoples Republic of China since 1949 have in fact been actually the true perpretrators of those crimes, and not put in those sorry situations due to ny political and 'anti-revolutionary' actions taken? Accordingly, you cannot deny my inference of the possibility that this being China (occupied Tibet) that there exists a reasonable possibility that the soon to be executed in the photos may have been killed for other reasons? You can argue a parlor game with me, but I'll stick with the collection of facts based on both what we can determine by research, coupled with what we know in reality about the Chinese Government and such executions. Kindly join in that effort. You are above your current writings.