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Globally, it has happened in different places by different countries and different times in the past century, an 'ethnic minority' somewhere gets the brunt of violence while money deals go down.

There have been occasions where the U.S. has intervened in the severe oppression of ‘ethnic minorities’, for example Bosnia.  The Bosnia and Serbia situation went on for years, until finally, mass graves get uncovered, and the oppression had to come to halt, as it was just way too much for the international community to keep witnessing.

In regions of the world today, there are 'ethnic minorities', [purposely placed in quotes because it can be interpreted as a derogatory term and of limited understanding, but in this circumstance it is used to drive a point about an issue that is clear across the board], that undergo constant oppression of some sort to some degree.

A few examples,

Timeline of what Crimean Tatars have undergone in the past 3 quarters of a century

In China, such as Xinjiang region

Rohingya Muslim, reference Myanmar and Burma

African Americans and Arabs and Arab Americans in the United States on a case by case basis

What Chechens have undergone the past few decades

   Looking at Chechnya as an analog has obvious reminders.  Chechen after Chechen was oppressed, over years, then when an event occurs where numerous persons are killed or taken hostage all at once, Chechens as an entirety are now the outcast of civilization as put by some media stories.

African descent persons in South America

The list goes on

Allowing a certain ethnic minority to get the dump on as big financial deals come into swaying for a momentary flash of time, once again might not be as appealing in the long run as it might immediately appear.

The adding of insult to injury, is when media giants exacerbate and facilitate stoking the flames of a dump-on situation, who cares about them while we grab a bunch of money, devise.

It was only a few months ago where sympathy stories are being run.  Then, it turns to, an ‘ethnic minority’ with an ‘ethnic identity’ that goes back thousands of years, where there were a few uprisings popular media found out about that involved loss of life clustered together, is now portrayed as just some group with ties to terrorism, that might as well just be eradicated for the sake of world peace.  Can the wool be pulled over the eyes of that many people in that short of time?

The susceptible, especially young and ignorant, if they are victims of being pulled aside then misguided and uneducated, every now and then might mistakenly join up a terror group.  It does not mean that everyone from where they came from is now a terror group that should be abandoned and victimized by the rest of mankind.

Xinjiang region geopolitically today, briefly, is situated between where there are countries with Muslim influence that were once associated with the USSR before it broke up in the wake of the post communist and Glastnost/Glasnost era, the larger China, or the rest of larger China aloof from the debate, on the other side in the eastern direction, and the home of Genghis Khan in Mongolia toward northeast.

Easily put, Uighurs, or alternate spellings abundant, Uyghurs, have a rich and old tradition, and are respected globally for who they are, at least by those that are on par with a minimum level of education.  The dynamics formed by the Uyghurs, the Xinjiang region, their neighbors to the west of there and them, neighbors to the east, relations to regimes from long ago, and relationships to establishments of nations today, has a development that is more advanced and has further depth than conveniently worded press blurbs with wry intentions.

If someone is engaging in referent wry activities, it might be wise to cease, because once the collective eyes of the world make it plain to see that wrongful oppression of a people for the wrong reasons is going on, it will be shown it is not what the U.S. nor nations that stand for fairness, subscribe too.