Europe, ego, and the reasons for China’s UN Uyghur report fury

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Beijing is very upset.

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights published a long-awaited report Thursday on China’s human rights abuses against its Uyghur ethnic minority citizens. Released just minutes before the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet ended her four-year tenure, the report declared “credible evidence” China’s actions toward the Uyghurs “may constitute … crimes against humanity.” Bachelet says that she was under “tremendous pressure to publish or not to publish.”

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