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Dr Pita Sharples
Minister of Maori Affairs
pita.sharples@parliament.govt.nz
Dear Dr Sharples,
I am writing to inform you of my intentions to protest Maori Television’s planned broadcast of Rebiya Kadeer’s hagiography “The 10 Conditions of Love” and an exclusive interview with Kadeer on the current events programme “Native Affairs”
Our planned protest will occur on Friday 21 August at 12:30pm on Parliament grounds. We seek an audience with you; the Minister of Maori Affairs and the Minister of Finance as representatives of The Crown, a key stakeholder in Maori Television.
In broadcasting Kadeer’s documentary and interview Maori Television is effectively providing a mass media platform for terrorist and separatist ideals. Not only is this occurring but Maori Television makes no attempt to put Kadeer’s film in context of the current situation in XinJiang, China, where Kadeer has instigated violent riots in her attempts to create her East Turkistan nation.
I am sure the minister is aware of the recent violence that took place in the capital city of the XinJiang Autonomous region, Urumqi. Where on 5 July around a thousand Uyghur rioters took to the streets of Urumqi with clubs and knives and committed racially inspired attacks on local people of the Han ethnic group. In less than a day of violence, 197 people were killed. Thousands were injured and many are still in serious medical conditions. These rioters moved in an organised fashion, attacking at the same time in four distinct parts of Urumqi, leaving behind them a trail of destruction and death. Rebiya Kadeer is believed to be the main instigator of this tragic event.
Maori Television’s broadcast will be in breach of the The New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority, which stipulates in Standard 4 and Standard 5 of its “Free to air TV code”:
When discussing controversial issues of public importance in news, current affairs or factual programmes, broadcasters should make reasonable efforts, or give reasonable opportunities, to present significant points of view either in the same programme or in other programmes within the period of current interest.
AND
Broadcasters should make reasonable efforts to ensure that news, current affairs and factual programming:
* is accurate in relation to all material points of fact and/or
* does not mislead.
Formal complaints have been submitted to Maori Television and will be submitted to the Broadcasting Standards Authority after the screening of Kadeer’s exclusive interview and her film.
Rebiya Kadeer’s organisation the World Urghur Congress lays claim to a nation they call “East Turkistan” which would encompass the whole of XinJiang Autonomous region. Her movement is, and will continue to cause violence, ethnic tensions and economic chaos in central Asia.
Xin Jiang is a beautiful and culturally diverse region that is 1/6 the territorial mass of China. It is home to around 40 different cultures and ethnicities and was once a vital part of the “Silk Road”. We recognise the existence of ethnic tensions in this diverse land. Currently, Uyghur people represent 45% of the population, Han people represent 40% of the population and 15% of the population belong to a whole host of other ethnicities including Kazakh and Hui. But Kadeer’s methods of separation, violence and terror are not a means to solve any of these problems. By providing Rebiya Kadeer a mass media platform Maori Television will be misleading viewers and the public whilst ignoring the bloodshed that recently occurred in Urumqi.
New Zealand is also a multicultural society encompassing many cultures and people of many different ethnic back grounds. In a recent press release by Maori Television, Kadeer stated:
“If there was a message she thought Maori could learn from the Uyghur situation, it was the need to fight for independence and autonomy” (http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0908/S00229.htm)
These comments and others in the Australian media are blatant attacks on ethnic harmony in New Zealand and our founding document the Treaty of Waitangi. We do not wish to see a repeat of the Urumqi violence on New Zealand streets.
Respectfully,
Lily Li
Organiser
021 132 8011
Chn4c21st@hotmail.com
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