A Washington Post Op-Ed addresses the destruction of the Uighur society in western China. An excerpt follows:
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called the plan to demolish 22 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem “provocative” and “contrary to international law.” But the wholesale destruction of Old Kashgar and the entire Uighur culture merits not a word. As George Orwell said with Stalin in mind, “the most enormous crimes . . . can actually escape notice altogether, so long as they do not happen to fit in with the political mood of the moment.” Clearly, the awful plight of the Uighurs does not fit with the political mood of this moment, even among their co-religionists in the Muslim world.