The film is facing fresh calls for a boycott, this time for filming and thanking authorities in China’s Xinjiang province where the government is accused of carrying out widespread human rights abuses against around one million Uighur Muslims.
Disney’s new Mulan film is facing fresh calls for a boycott, this time for filming and thanking authorities in China’s Xinjiang province where the government is accused of carrying outThe film, released last week after much anticipation, is a live-action remake of the 1998 animated movie that follows a young Chinese girl who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the imperial army.
But in the film’s final credits, some viewers spotted Disney offered “special thanks” to several government bodies in Xinjiang, including the Turpan Municipal Bureau of Public Security, which has been linked to the operation of Uighur internment camps. The credits also specifically thank “the Publicity Department of CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Committee”, which has been accused of operating as a propaganda machine for the Chinese Communist Party.
Mulan specifically thank the publicity department of CPC Xinjiang uyghur autonomous region committee in the credits.They filmed extensively in Xinjiang, which the subtitles call “Northwest China”
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