Saw this posted the other day about that situation: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/asia/2016/11/13/Satellite-images-show-Myanmar-Muslim-villages-torched-.html
And I read another story that even in China, they have about 20 million Muslims in one province, the Uighurs.
In a few years, the Chinese government could well be telling us that that estimate is very much exaggerated, that the actual number of Uighurs is more like 20, not 20 million.
History could repeat itself.
The Uighurs are the descendents of:
They were initially Turkic-shamanistic religion following, then became Manichaen, then Nestorian Christian (yes, you got that right, they were Christians owing allegiance to the CAtholicos of Ctestiphon (Baghdad) when, in the 8th century, that Church (the ancient church of the East or the Assyrian/Chaldean Church) had 33% of the world's Christians, spread from Iraq to Mongolia (Naiman tribe -- Genghis Khan's wife was Christian) to India (MarThomite Christians in Kerala).
They gradually converted to Islam in the 10th to 14th century, mostly peacefully and adopted sufiism
They were conquered by the Manchu after the Manchu/Jurchen conquered China in the 17th century forming the Qing dynasty.
They are not Han Chinese by looks, language, race, culture or history.
Even the Tibetans are closer related to the Han Chinese than the Uighurs.
this is a conquered nation and one where the locals are being pushed out by government promotion of Han Chinese.
But, they are Moslems, so I don't know who to support quite frankly in this case.
Steely Tom is correct — the Chinese have a reputation for brutal genocide — in the 17th and 18th century they wiped out an entire people — the Dzungarians.