A collection of human rights officials said the international community must not ignore the systematic abuses allegedly perpetrated against Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and .
The more than 40 experts, comprising U.N. special rapporteurs, independent experts and members of working groups under the U.N. Human Rights Council, issued their call in response to a damning report issued on August 31 by former U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, finding that China s repression of the predominantly Muslim minorities in Xinjiang