"When asked further, she gave unsubstantiated shocking stories of Hans community's atrocities on Tibetans. She fully believes stories of Chinese suppression of Tibetans. "
Sheila Bhatt surprises me everytinme. She shows poor journalistic talent sometimes. In this statement she uses the word "unsubstantiated" even before she tells us what the woman is supposed to have said. Using that word like that does not make her a fair journalist - instead it suggests that she is not herself convinced by the Tibetan woman and doesnt want the reader to be either. In fact in the next sentence when she says that the Tibetan woman "fully believes the stories...", it suggests that Bhatt doesnt think they are true. Most serious journalists would usually first describe what the woman said and then say something like 'no independent confirmation could be obtained for...'
