Now I've Got You, You Son Of a Bitch.
Please look closely at my post, to which you answered as above.
It specifically mentioned that it was NOT about the Uighur, so you may calm down.
My intention is not to torture you with bits of Chinese history that you are hardly supposed to know; it is to make a point, that the present-day Chinese treatment of the Uighur is just the modern version of what the then Chinese state did to the predecessors of the Uighur (yes, there was somebody else there, yes, the Uighur were brought in to fill the 'gaps' by the Qing, yes, the Uighur did not occupy Xinjiang then).
You will understand the point very clearly once you have done your homework.
Please do not be in a hurry to answer, but take your time; I am not going anywhere.