I came across a post by V gadgil regarding the screening of final solution, a documentary by rakesh sharma.
I have seen the documentary myself. In my opinion the documentary is a crude and obnoxious attempt by leftists to exemplify and exagerate the unfortunate happenings in Gujarat in order to extract some cheap political mileage. The documentary is full of half truths lies as well as unverified and mischiveous allegations against a particular political ideology. Some points worth noting are as follows: The following is a excerpt of a interview rakesh Sharma gave to BBC: BBC Four: You've said that the Gujarat riots were a turning point for India. Why is that? Rakesh Sharma: It was a turning point because for the first time the state was complicit. We now have it on record that there were government ministers trying to disrupt and control police operations when the violence was at its peak THE FACT IS THAT THIS WAS NOT THE FIRST TIME THE SKH RIOTS WERE FAR MORE GRUESOME AND HAD AMPLE STATE PATRONAGE. 2. The documentary conveniently ignores the fact that hindu dalits were also the target of violent muslim mobs i many parts of gujarat. 3.The MYTH being circulated is that the state police did nothing. the FACT is that 254 rioteers were shot dead by the state police and many more were injured. 4. For instance, the documentary claims that: "Narendra Modi introduced 7/8th grade history textbook that glorifies Hitler." It, however, turns out that the books was actually prescribed under a Congress government in 1993 and can hardly, in any case, be pinned upon the incumbent chief minister. 5. There is wide coverage to the hate speech delivered by hindu fundamentalists like Togadia and others but the documentary is silent regarding the vicious anti hindu uterances of fanatic muslims. the documentary tries to create the impression that hate speech is carried out only by Hindus while the muslims are meek victims. 6.The inteviews are selectively carried out with either muslims vctims or hindu suspects. It is surprising that rakesh dint find any single muslim exremist or a hindu victim of communal riots 7. Finaly the name "Final Solution" itself is very interesting. The "Final Solution" was conceived at the Wannsee conference by office holders in the German administration to come up with a long-term plan to murder and dislocate Jews. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that even one murder in Gujrat was conceived at the state or national level, no evidence that it was ever a part of government policy. Because it was not. The name is chosen to pander to western audiences for whom it has a far darker connotation (it implies violence as a part of government policy) with what happened in Gujrat. FINAL COMMENTS: Some peope would like everybody to believe that I have a vested interest in "protecting" the rioteers. many many people on Goanet use synonyms (some even confess to doing that openly) yet some people here would like to portray me as someone who creates "smoke screen" and "red herrings" because i just use a first name. I would request everyone to indeed watch the film and see for themselves the biased and inflamatory messages propagated by these marxist miscreants. I also happened to talk to many of my gujarati friends. They admit that wht happened in Gujarat was bad but yet they are also convinced that vested interests have started spreading canards about gujratis in general. A question worth reflecting upon is : Why would the gujratis who are essentialy a pragmatic business community who know better than anyone else that economic growth is the first casualty of riots would so actively support narendra Modi? -vivek __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
