[Peace-discuss] Screening of FINAL SOLUTION today at 5:00 PM

[South Asian Collective UIUC]

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”.
 
More information is available at: http://www.uiuc.edu/ro/SAC/
 
Attached is the flyer for this event. 


South Asian Collective 
http://www.uiuc.edu/ro/SAC/ 
sacuiuc at yahoo.com

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South Asian Collective 
http://www.uiuc.edu/ro/SAC/ 
sacuiuc at yahoo.com


	
		
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