Feeling

Turkey is facing the very same issue under the label of "Kurdish issue" Some groups claim to be representatives of Kurd people in Turkey. They get their propaganda across to European political circles. European ppl get a perception of so-called "Kurdish issue" through PKK (a terrorist organization which resemblance ETA of Spain) militants. These ppl claim to fight for Kurdish ppl and their demands, but this is not the case indeed. But since Turkish state had long neglected the presence of a kurdish minority in Turkey on legal basis (coz ethnic minority is more than a sociological term), Turkish official claims never gained ground in Europe, PKK militants on the other hand promoted themselves as "freedom fighters"

So Turkish ppl know the situation there from their firsthand experiences. Paradoxically there are racist groups claiming that Uygur ppl (xinjiang) are oppressed by chinese government, therefore we must fight for their freedom. I think China is bound to face an Uygur (weiwuer) problem besides Tibet problem. Because Western powers are likely to undermine china's political stability by pushing forward the excuse of "human rights" and how chinese gov oppress the minorities there... Cold war has already begun.