Kaohsiung reconsidering Uighur screening

September 18, 2009 The documentary had been scheduled to be screened at next month's annual film festival in Kaohsiung, whose mayor Chen Chu is backed by Taiwan's anti-China opposition party. Chinese officials say that Kadeer, a former businesswoman who now leads exile group the World Uyghur Congress, orchestrated ethnic violence in Xinjiang, an ethnic Uighur region of northwest China, killing about 200 people. A furor erupted in Australia earlier this year when Chinese embassy staff pushed unsuccessfully for the same documentary to be dumped from the country's biggest film festival in Melbourne, prompting an angry public backlash and higher audience numbers.

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