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This video is part of a collection documenting the events of three days in #AD4, a slum colony in Ahmedabad city, after the burning of Hindu activists on the Sabarmati Express at Godhra station on Feb 27th, 2002.

The Godhra killings were shocking in themselves, but the Hindu right-wing's systematic targeting of Muslim citizens for three days after Godhra shook the faith of all who had believed the country to be a secular democracy.

For three days – Feb 27th, 28th and March 1st - the state government and state police allowed the right-wing mobs to "retaliate". They raped, looted, burned and murdered freely. We know this through thousands of first-hand accounts related by the victims and witnesses of the rampaging mobs and indifferent government agencies.

About a month after the post-Godhra carnage, citizen journalists formed the Shared Footage Group that travelled through the relief camps, decimated slums and housing societies to record people’s accounts of what happened in those three days. The stories are varied. Victims in some cases comprised Dalit Hindus, and saviours, in some instances, included local political leaders and policemen with a conscience.

The story of this Basti, (locality) told through these events here, is relatively painless. Relatively, because people lost everything they possessed, but remained alive. Here is their telling of what happened to them in their own homes in those 'days of calamity' or "qayamat ke din".

See other videos documenting the events at #AD4: From One Basti in Ahmedabad

#AD4
Shot on 21.11.02 11:00am
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#AD4 story
stock shot of #FN21 cooking food in her house

Shots of women cooking in the open.
brick wall
slum
women cooking

#AD4
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD4 story
shot of street adjacent to #FN21's house, b.g overbridge can be seen

#AD4
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#AD4 story
pan from blue house street to #FN21's house door

#AD4
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#AD4 story
shot of a muslim woman cooking food ouside her home

#AD4
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD4 story
#FN21's daughter cooking food

Shots of the slum, paths between the houses, camera follows a particular woman.

#AD4
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD4 story
pan from street adjacent to #FN21's house to the street from where they escaped or jumped to #AD27, #FN21 ben is showing the place & fence from where they jumped

Woman explains how they escaped from the attackers by climbing over a brick wall behind their slum.

She points to a thicket of trees and bushes and says that they hid behind it.

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mention of nearby locality

#AD4
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD4 story
close up of space & between the roads from where they jump

Shots of the colony that lies on the other side of the wall by the slum. In the background the women recount how the people from the colony helped them with food and shelter. They say that they have come back here to live because they have no place else to go. They have children. The government colony's Muslims protected the Hindus from the slum.
government colony
slum

#AD4
Interview
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD4 story
#FN21 talking about their stay in #AD27. some other womens are also talking, link with another interview with #FN21 in gmd004

Another woman says that Muslims are not the problem. Outsiders came and caused problems.

The women continue to tell of the escape over the wall.

The women say they took their kids and ran. They left their things behind, but just tried to save their lives.

They have left an exit open. They'd left this open knowing that there could be a situation at any time that required an escape route. An iron door was fitted there, narrow enough for one person at a time to enter or leave.

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mentions activist's name

She says that they've been waiting eight months. They haven't received any compensation or help.
compensation
kitchen utensils
local leader
medicine
relief

She says they stayed in the government colony 7 months. When their houses were rebuilt they came back to their slum.

They did not go to stay in the relief camp. They were invited in by their Muslim friends but they felt that since they were Hindus, it was safe enough for them outside. The Muslims in the government colony provided for them for 15 days, then their local leader gave them food and helped them rebuild their houses. Once things settled a little, their men started going out to work again. When kitchen utensils were provided by their leader they began to cook their own food.

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mentions saviour

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mentions activist's name

The leader helped them fill forms applying for relief and they then received compensation from the government. They received between Rs.12,000 and Rs. 25,000. They say that they're grateful to their leader for seeing that they received some compensation, since they didn't stay at the relief camp. Also for his providing them with food and medicine for 7 months.

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mentions activist's name

Shot of the fence. Woman explains that they crossed the railway line.

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mentions nearby locality

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mentions crew member's name

Shot of fence and across it.

Shot of Ganpaty idol under a chair in the open. Women and children in the roofless house. Kids eat chapaati, wandering around, dropping them. The woman also has a small baby.

The woman and kids walk through the half-built slum.

#AD4
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD4 story
one woman with her kid & #FN21 walking out of the street which connects to the #AD25 road

Shot of the alleys between the houses.

road towards railway tracks, #AD301
Shot on 21.11.02 01:30pm
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#AD301 story
shot of road leading toward railway track

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mention of crew member's name

road towards railway tracks, #AD301
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD301 story
shot of #AD302 water tank tilt down to the road leading to the railway track

Shots of a water tank and some buildings. No explanation as to what, possibly the government colony.

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mention of locality

road towards railway tracks, #AD301
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD301 story
shots of opening between the wall from where railway tracks start

Shot of a gap in the wall, possibly leading to the railway track across which the slum-dwellers escaped from the mob.
ambience shots
bridge
railway tracks
trains

Sound of train passing and a small building

Clear shots of the gap in the wall and railway tracks.

road towards railway tracks, #AD301
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD301 story
railway track shots starts

Shot of tracks and bridge overhead.

road towards railway tracks, #AD301
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#AD301 story
walk through on railway track starts

Moving shot along the tracks.

road towards railway tracks, #AD301
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD301 story
walk through on narrow road parllel to railway track on which ggods train is parked on the left of the frame

More shots of the road, tracks and trains.

road towards railway tracks, #AD301
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#AD301 story
pov shots of victim hiding behind goods train coach

road towards railway tracks, #AD301
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#AD301 story
shot of railway workshop yard in l.s on the right side of narrow road

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
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#AD301 story
shots of victims pov looking back towards #AD301( refernce point water tank in b.g

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
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#AD301 story
shot of railway tracks leading to #AD30 station

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
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#AD301 story
walkthrough between wall & railway oil tanker

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD301 story
shot of railway workshop yard in l.s, left of frame goods train

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD301 story
shot of railway yard in m.s

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
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#AD301 story
walk through between two railway goods train

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD301 story
pan from passing train to #AD28

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mention of locality

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD301 story
shot of #AD29 water tank

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
180 degree pan from #AD301 side railway track to #AD29 tank to #AD28 overbridge
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD301 story

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD301 story
c. up of #AD28 b.g suggestion of #AD30 station

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD301 story
walk through from under the #AD28 overbridge towards #AD30 station and then towards the way out from railway tracks to go to #AD31

Shot of slum from the tracks.

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD301 story
static shots of the opening from where people got out of railway tracks

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
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#AD301 story
shot of mosque just to give the suggestion of muslim area

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
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#AD301 story
shot of chimney

route from railway tracks to #AD30 station
Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD301 story
shot of chimney & #AD30 station

Gap in the wall.

#AD4
Shot on 21.11.02 03:30pm
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#AD4 story
shot of fencing opening taken from #AD27 compound

Shot on 21.11.02
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#AD4
#AD4 story
shot of fencing & #AD25 road showing #AD27 compound

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