【The Age】Exiled Uighur leader in Japan to win global support

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Exiled Uighur leader in Japan to win global support      
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July 29, 2009 - 3:04PM

            Exiled Uighurleader Rebiya Kadeer was in Japan Wednesday to urge global support forher "massacred" people following deadly unrest in western China, asBeijing pressed the United States to rein her in.

            Kadeer,62, the US-based head of the World Uighur Congress, said she wouldstate the case of her mainly Muslim minority, after clashes in Xinjiangthis month between Uighurs and Han Chinese that Beijing says left 197people dead.

            In a closed meeting with members ofJapan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Kadeer reiterated her claimthat the true death toll across the remote western region was in thethousands, the Nikkei daily said in an online report.

            Kadeer was due to give a press conference in Tokyo at 0500 GMT.

            Beijingaccuses the mother-of-11 of being a "criminal" who instigated theviolence and has strongly protested against Japan for granting her avisa while also pressing the United States and other countries to shunher.

            China's foreign ministry on Monday expressedits "strong dissatisfaction" with Japan for allowing entry to Kadeer,who spent around six years in a Chinese prison before being releasedunder US pressure in 2005.

            Japan's top governmentspokesman, Takeo Kawamura, said Tuesday that Kadeer's visit "wasorganised by civil groups, not an event by the government."

            "We don't consider that her visit to Japan itself will negativelyimpact the Japan-China relationship," Kawamura told a regular pressbriefing.

            Foreign ministry spokesman Kazuo Kodamatold AFP that Kadeer was granted a visa in line with Japanese laws andprocedures, and stressed that no Japanese government officials hadplans to meet her.

            Kadeer -- who was greeted onarrival Tuesday by a small group of supporters waving the blue flags ofEast Turkestan, as they call Xinjiang -- said she would state herpeople's case during her three-day visit.

            "My aimin visiting Japan is for the Japanese people to understand how terriblyour people are being massacred and repressed," Kadeer said, accordingto a translation given to AFP by Ilham Mahmut of the Japan UighurAssociation.

            "I hope Japan's government and peoplewill help us escape these severe conditions. In future, I hope manyother countries will also approve my visits so that I can work onpromoting people's understanding about the Uighurs."

            Chinaon Tuesday blocked the signal of Japanese broadcaster NHK when itshowed footage of Kadeer's arrival at Tokyo's Narita airport, KyodoNews reported.

            Beijing has also campaigned for other countries to deny Kadeer a platform.

            InWashington, China's vice foreign minister Wang Guangya on Tuesday saidhis side had asked the United States to "restrain and prevent" anyonefrom using its soil to conduct "separatist activities against China."

            In Australia, Melbourne International Film Festival director RichardMoore this week accused Chinese officials of trying to bully him intopulling a documentary about her called "Ten Conditions of Love."

            Kadeer,meanwhile drew support from another figure who has long been a thorn inBeijing's side, the Dalai Lama, who told an audience in Warsaw that,like him, Kadeer believed in non-violence and was not seeking aseparate state.

            Speaking on the Xinjiang situation,the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader added: "Using force, this willnever bring genuine harmony. Harmony must come based on trust, andtrust you cannot bring by a gun."

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