EDIT: I just want to point out how both this and another comment chain in this thread ended the instant I asked the lemmy.ml users to back up their claims.

Only after the rioters killed over a 100 soldiers was military action taken.
Only after scores of soldiers dead,
did the military enter the street where the killings took place and did Chinese military kill the insurgents that killed their soldiers.

Source? Because that doesn’t match up with what I’ve read, especially the numbers.