Rebiya Kadeer
Superficially, it’s an arthouse issue that affects a small number of culture vultures and cineastes who won’t see a movie unless it’s got subtitles.
It’s actually one of the most compelling and alarming stories in Australia today, as it shows how the most pernicious features of a totalitarian regime have been imported into our own country. And we should all be rallying behind its victim, the Melbourne Film Festival, as it tries to defend freedom of expression and assembly in the face of intimidation on behalf of the Chinese dictatorship.
The Punch spoke last night with the director of the festival, Richard Moore, who is trying to manage this event against a backdrop of website hacking, telephone sabotage, suspected surveillance and direct threats, all from supporters of Beijing who want the festival to pull one of its movies and cancel the Melbourne visit by the woman it profiles.
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The Uyghurs need a good spin doctor.
These forgotten people of northwest China are the Tibetans the world doesn’t care about.
It might be because they’re Muslims.
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Asheq Islam says:
As an ICEM.(Indigenous Colored Ethnic Moslem) myself, THANK YOU TRACE—Oh Nordic Princess, Aryan Goddess—for bringing China’s Ethnic Moslems to public attention!!!!! And that I, not just an *Ethnic Moslem*[I prefer MOSlem to MUSlim] but more pertinently a SOCIALIST & COMMUNIST, was quite ignorant about Chinese Ethnic Moslems[numbering in the 10’S… Read more »
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Sticks and stones Look it up? regroup or retire Read more »
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