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Summary: This has an interview with a survivor who relates how they escaped, and mentions a couple of Muslims who collaborated with the rioters. He talks about the destruction and loot in his locality, how he came to live there, and how he can't think of returning to his estranged brother at his native place. This is followed by general visual shots of the camp, some children, and some women complaining about the situation. There follows an interview with a woman who describes the attack on her house and shop as well as how they escaped. She says that two temples were constructed on the site of her house and shop after destroying them. She talks about how after lots of running around she and her family were able to get the temples removed. The first FIR they lodged was not taken down properly and they had to lodge another FIR in order to reclaim their land. She talks about how they are trying to rebuild their house at the same site, but are threatened by groups of people every time they visit the site. She describes how her neighbours took advantage of the situation, how the perpetrators are still free in spite of their having given a proper police complaint. These perpetrators are instead intimidating her to take back the complaint, but she has bravely refused. There is also an interview with her daughter who also talks about the current situation and expresses an equal determination to go back and live there. This is followed by a few general shots of the camp. It ends with an interview with a man from #AD4 who converted to Islam when he moved to Ahmedabad two years ago. He talks about the involvement of the police in supporting the carnage.
Part of this video also belongs to 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 where the rule of law is upheld (for the most part), by the State.
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.
See other videos documenting the events at #AD4:
From One Basti in Ahmedabad
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madhav mill compound camp
Shot on 18.06.02 05:15pm
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int with #MN39, m, 45+, add: #AD22
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mentions native place
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mentions a camp organiser's name
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mentions muslim committee official
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mentions nearby localities
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madhav mill compound camp
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general shots of camp
madhav mill compound camp
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camp comittiee people filling forms for victims who are standing in long queue
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madhav mill compound camp
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womens talking about the camp people giving the ration since camps are geting closed, but where will we go when there is no house there
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madhav mill compound camp
Shot on 18.06.02
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general shots of camp in the b.g ajaan sound from the mosque is coming
Interview
madhav mill compound camp
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int with #FN19, f, 30+, add: #AD23- talks about how the mob constructed two temples in their house & shop & also how after lot of efforts it was removed last saturday; today when we went again to see our house they attacked us & not want the local ppl of that area to come & settle
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names perpetrator
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mentions nearby locality and names her daughter
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madhav mill compound camp
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int with #FN20, f, 20+, daughter of #FN19: talks about the same days incident about how the local woman were making comments on her when she went to see her house
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madhav mill compound camp
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shots of the newspaper ( indian express ahemdabad newsline & asian age) containg article & photographs regarding the temple construction at #FN19's house & shop
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madhav mill compound camp
Shot on 18.06.02
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general shots of the camp
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#AD4 story
Shot on 18.06.02
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int with #MN40, m, 35+, add: #AD4-- talks about the inspector #MN4 & attack on #AD4
#AD4
madhav mill compound camp
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mentions police sub inspector's name
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