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FINAL SOLUTION: a film on religious fundamentalism in India |
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by South Asian Collective
Email: tulsid (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified!)
Phone: 217-351-6871 |
29 Apr 2004
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A film on the rise of religious fundamentalism in India |
The South Asian Collective invites you for a screening
of
an award-winning films on
religious fundamentalism in India
FINAL SOLUTION directed by Rakesh
Sharma
[followed by discussion with the director]
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Date & Time: Apr 30,
2004. 5:00 pm
Venue : 1320, Digital Computer
Laboratory, 1304 W.
Springfield
(Corner of Springfield and Mathews)
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The screening is free and open to all!
BACKGROUND: The Sangh Parivar -- a family of
Hindu fundamentalist organizations -- has been widely implicated for its
involvement in the violence against religious minorities, primarily Muslims and
Christians. In a report released in October 1999, Human Rights Watch implicated
the Sangh Parivar organizations and the local and national governments (both
under the control of the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party) of
involvement in anti-Christian violence in the state of Gujarat. [
http://hrw.org/reports/1999/indiachr ] The violence
included such barbaric incidents as the burning alive of an
Australian
Christian missionary and his sons and the raping of nuns.
ABOUT THE FILM:
Set in Gujarat, India, between February 2002 and July 2003, the film
examines the deadly violence that followed the burning of 59 Hindus on 27
February 2002. As a “reaction” to that barbaric incident, some 2,000
Muslims were brutally murdered, hundreds of women raped, and more than 100,000
families driven from their homes. The film is anti-hate/violence, in the spirit
of the idea that “those who forget history are condemned to relive
it”.
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See also:
http://www2.uiuc.edu/ro/SAC/events/finalsolution.htm
http://www2.uiuc.edu/ro/SAC/events/fundamentalism.htm
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