China's Fruitless Repression of the Uighurs By JAMES A. MILLWARDSEPT Sept. 28, 2014 The New York Times Last week, a court in China’s far western Xinjiang region sentenced Ilham Tohti, a member of the Uighur minority, to life in prison for the crime of “inciting separatism.” The conviction of this moderate scholar elicited international condemnation; the sentence was an or..