Just Askin': Is That a Pillowcase on that Chinese Paramilitary Soldier's Head?

Why would the Chinese government, which so tightly controls the press and certainly had a say in "allowing" this picture to be published, put a picture out with the lead guy from the paramilitary having a big tear in the top of his mask? And look at the shape of the holes in the guy's mask behind him -- they look like a kindergarten-er took a pair of scissors to black pillow case or something.

Just askin'.