Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have executed two Uighurs and sentenced 15 others accused of terrorist ties. The Kashgar Intermediate Court sentenced to death two men, identified as Mukhtar Setiwaldi and Abduweli Imi, and immediately executed them July 9. Most of the rest received prison terms ranging from 10 years to life. All were charged with being members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). (Radio Free Asia, July 12)

As we noted in our last post on the Uighurs, the US has also used supposed ties to ETIM to justify the designation of Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay as an "enemy combatants." One would think that both the idiot leftists who revere the PRC as a "socialist" state and the sinister neocons who hypocritically demonize the PRC would become aware of the cognitive dissonance at some point...