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Or how about we call both situations out as morally wrong and skip the whataboutism.
For clarification - Suttee is the act of murdering a man's wife (or her committing suicide) so that she can serve him in the afterlife. Thuggee is the act of ritually murdering your travelling companions, supposedly as an offering to the God Shiva, or just for profit.

I have no problem with the British repressing those practices AND will calling out the repressive practices of the CCP.

I don't believe in moral relativism, though. I think the British moral outlook in the 19th century was (whilst flawed) fundamentally correct whereas I feel the outlook of the leaders of the CCP is fundamentally repugnant.