【the Age】Uighur leader to launch film in spirit of peace

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Uighur leader to launch film in spirit of peacehttp://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/film/uighur-leader-to-launch-film-in-spirit-of-peace/2009/08/04/1249350547259.html

REBIYA Kadeer, the exiled Uighur leader accused by China of being a terrorist mastermind, is snoozing on a couch in suburban Sydney.

The woman the Chinese Government accuses of inciting deadly ethnic rioting in Xinjiang last month between Uighurs and Han Chinese, slipped into Sydney yesterday to rest before facing an expected storm of attention over a film on her life that the Chinese Government tried to suppress.

Her links with Australia go beyond the estimated 2000 Uighurs who live here. One of her 11 children has lived in Melbourne since he married an Australian woman 12 years ago and she is looking forward to seeing her grandson again.

Ms Kadeer, 62, was relatively unknown until the riots a month ago. She has said previously that she wants to be the Dalai Lama of the Uighurs. But unlike His Holiness she has 11 children, five of whom remain in China.

She flew in from Washington to the news that Chinese authorities were brandishing letters they claimed were signed by two of her children and nine other relatives backing Beijing’s claims that Ms Kadeer is responsible for the riots in the Xinjiang capital Urumqi that killed at least 197 and injured more than 1700, mainly Han, according to official reports. Ms Kadeer says using her children against her is an old tactic.

‘‘It is shameful that the Chinese Government has tried to turn the children of a mother against her. It is completely unacceptable. It is immoral violence,’’ she said. ‘‘It is a forgery, transparent propaganda.’’ But she accepts that China might well have coerced her family into signing such letters — two of her sons are in jail on what she says are trumped up charges to pressure her.

The impact of her political activities on her children is a key part of the Australian film The 10 Conditions of Love, which premieres at the Melbourne International Film Festival this Saturday, the main reason for her visit this time. While she is keen to meet Australian officials and parliamentarians, none have agreed to so far. She will not be asking the Rudd Government to accept the Guantanamo Bay Uighurs, cleared of terrorism charges, but she wants Australians to know that although her people are being jailed and killed in China, she disavows terrorism. ‘‘I oppose any form of violence. I oppose the killing of innocent people regardless of race, religion or ethnicity,’’ she says. ‘‘It is the Uighurs who are the victims of [state] terrorism.


‘‘The Chinese Government is trying to use this as political leverage to justify the killing of innocent Uighurs and Han.’’

She says it has now become impossible for Uighur and Han to live together and she wants the Chinese Government to hold talks with her to restore stability. She is also demanding a United Nations inquiry into the riots to determine the true cause and the real casualties.

When the Chinese Consulate tried to intimidate the Film Festival into dropping the film and its invitation to Ms Kadeer, they unwittingly gave the documentary and Ms Kadeer the best publicity in the world.

Suddenly the budget film that Australian (Melbourne) director Jeff Daniels and producer John Lewis had struggled to fund, became a cause celebre. It has sold out both original and extra sessions and demand has been so high that last night, festival director Richard Moore told the The Age the premiere was being moved to Melbourne’s Town Hall.

The Victorian Police and the Australian Federal Police have become involved and private security is likely to be necessary because of concern that there could be a repeat of the Chinese nationalist sentiment sparked by the Beijing Olympic torch relay.

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