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Activists scuffle as Uighur activist visits Australia
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Members of the Uighur community in Melbourne, Australia, cheer their support for Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer outside the Chinese consulate Friday, Aug. 7, 2009.
A group of pro-China activists scuffled with supporters of exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer as she arrived in Melbourne on Saturday for the screening of a documentary on her life, witnesses said.
Kadeer's visit to Australia to attend a film festival has strained ties with China, which accuses her of instigating ethnic riots in northwestern Xinjiang region.
As Kadeer was ushered in by a side door to Melbourne's town hall, a small number of pro-China protesters waved banners accusing her of terrorism.
Her supporters carried the blue and white flag of the independence movement of East Turkestan, the name by which the movement refers to Xinjiang.
One female supporter briefly clashed with a pro-China protester and had to be separated by police, witnesses said.
The film festival is screening "The 10 Conditions of Love" -- a documentary about Kadeer's relationship with activist husband Sidik Rouzi and the effects on her 11 children of her push for more autonomy for China's 10 million mainly Muslim Uighurs.
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