As a former millionaire and entrepreneur whose name was mentioned in Forbes magazine in the 1990s, I can say that it is not difficult to make a lot of money and own a big business. What is difficult is to find this money, this greatness, without going beyond the bounds of morality and without going down illegal paths. I have seen Disney as an exemplary company in creating big business and great products of art, in advocating for true justice, not eating the rights of the weak and supporting the oppressors as it was a company founded and developed in a free society with the rule of law like the United States.However, it’s filming of “Mulan” in East Turkestan’s (Uyghuristan’s) Turfan prefecture, where the genocide took place, and it’s silence to the ongoing genocide in the process, instead its thanking to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Party Committee Propaganda Department and the Turpan Prefectural Police, which are the arms of a murderous regime has tarnished the image of the United States and the American people for its own sake. It became well-known to all that the filmmakers turned a blind eye to the horror camps in the vicinity where the film was filmed – also visible on the film screen. They ignored the captives who were being detained in the camp yard.They have ignored China’s secret documents about the Uyghur massacre, which were leaked to the international media in those days, did not even pay attention to the plight of Uyghur prisoners who were being displaced in satellite camps and blindfolded. If it was a small company in a poor country, this indifference could be understood to some extent by its surrender to this money; It is a very disgusting scene from a humanitarian point of view for a company with a world-renowned company like Disney to shake hands with a regime that is waging a genocide against innocent people.
I will not dwell on the content of this film – its inspiration for Chinese chauvinism in the region, and I believe that this point must also provoke the appropriate response from historians and film experts.
I only urge the Disney Company to stop selling this film, which has been working in collaboration with the government that is carrying out the genocide, and to apologize to the Uyghur people who have been heartbroken by Disney’s partnership with China.
Rabia Qadeer,
leader of the Uyghur National Movement