Xinjiang experts deplore Bachelet’s contradictions

The China trip of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has sparked strong criticism from international Xinjiang experts. In an open letter to the Chilean, 37 signatories, including German anthropologist Adrian Zenz and sinologist Bjoern Alpermann of the University of Würzburg, express their disbelief at Bachelet’s classifications of human rights violations in the autonomous region in northwest China. They said to be “ignored and even contradicted the academic findings that our colleagues, including two signatories to this letter, provided“.