[Imc-oxford] Final Solution - Documentary Screening, Room B111, SOAS; Saturday Sept 11 from 4-8pm

[Nisha,N (pgt)]

Dear all,

 

I am organizing a screening of Final Solution in Room B111 at SOAS on
Saturday Sept 11 from 4-8pm. The film has been banned in India. Everyone
is welcome for the screening. The film is in four parts and almost 3
hours long. If we begin on time, it should be over by 7:30 or 8:00 PM,
breaks included. Please bring some snacks and drinks for yourself, if
you would like to munch/drink something in between during the breaks. Do
feel free to forward the invitation to anyone who you feel is interested
in anti-religious communalism work.

 

Nisha

 

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FINAL SOLUTION: A documentary film by Rakesh Sharma 

 

Final Solution is a study of the politics of hate. Set in Gujarat, 

India between February 2002 and July 2003, the film examines the 

aftermath of the deadly violence that followed the burning of 58 

Hindus on the Sabarmati Express train at Godhra on February 27 2002. 

In "reaction" to that incident, some 2,500 Muslims were brutally 

murdered, hundreds of women raped, and more than 200,000 families 

driven from their homes. (2004, India, 145 min) 

 

About the Film 

 

Part 1: Pride and Genocide deals with the genocidal violence against 

Muslims and its immediate aftermath. It probes the patterns of pre-

planned violence by right-wing Hindu cadres which many claim was 

state-supported, if not state-sponsored. 

 

Part 2: The Terror Trail reconstructs through eyewitness accounts 

the attack on Gulbarg (Ahmedabad) and acts of barbaric violence 

against Muslim women at Eral and Delol/Kalol (Panchmahals) even as 

Chief Minister Modi traverses the state on his Gaurav Yatra. 

 

Part 3: The Hate Mandate documents the poll campaign during the 

Assembly elections in Gujarat in late 2002. It records in detail the 

exploitation of the Godhra incident (in which 58 Hindus were burnt 

alive) by the right-wing propaganda machinery for electoral gains. 

 

Part 4: Hope and Despair studies the situation after the storm and 

its impact on Hindus and Muslims' ghettoisation, the call for 

economic boycott of Muslims and continuing acts of violence more 

than a year after the carnage. 

 

For more information: http://www.ektaonline.org/events/rakeshsharma/

 

 

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