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The review will follow...but for now I have a thought that's bothering me...and where else better to vent, than on Jaman.
Many nations across the South American, European, African, and Asian continents are struck with conflict. Children aren’t playing dodge-ball, but instead, dodging bombs. The daily events that occur in those territories make headlines for maybe 30 seconds to mention the death toll of 300.
It's as if those 'casualities' are casual occurences, so no one pays much heat to them.
When 9-11 happened...you better bet EVERY news channel in EVERY part of the world covered it. ZEE News - all about "Amreeki jahas pe attack". United 93 followed shortly after.
But when BLACK FRIDAY happened... did Mumbai get the worldwide coverage? March 12, 1993 - ATTACK on the BOMBAY STOCK EXCHANGE! - 13 bombs across Bombay in total!!! over 1,300 INJURED! Riots to follow!!!!
...who cares right? - A brief mention in the "60 seconds Around the World" coverage..and that's that.
Perhaps when terrorism struck Indian soil (as it frequently has) been given its due attention, perhaps history wouldn't have repeated itself in a doubly terrifying manner!!!
Had the issue not taken 13 years to resolve, had it been a more URGENT matter...
maybe the course of 9-11 could have been altered.
History is often neglected. As much as we say, "learn from other's experiences" - few chose to.
I remember when I was in college, I wanted to petition for a WAR HISTORY class. I wanted a course that discussed WHY WAR ERUPTED, the causes leading up to it, HOW it was resolved, and WHAT current events do we see that mirror the same outline. It would allow us to make better decisions...even as common participants in the political and judicial system.
Well I never created the class... but I sure am bothered by the fact BLACK FRIDAY was far away from the limelight for so long. The film TRULY deserved to be seen by NOT just South Asian audiences, but Universal viewers.
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I just noticed this post. Indeed!! I happened to be in Srinigar, Kashmir, India on 9-11-2001 and saw the attacks on the World Trade Center on CNN on a slow internet connection in an "internet cafe" - a hot room of old computers. Then I walked out onto the streets of Srinigar where little children, dressed in old clothes were playing and women were selling fish from the polluted river and there were Indian soldiers with automatic weapons everywhere and people were living daily with guns pointed at them. That evening, I watched the attacks again on TV in English as the houseboat owner took me to a friend's house who had a TV. They said - "Now you know what we have been experiencing for the past 13 years and we will do anything to help you so you will help us." They apparently thought that because the U.S. had experienced terrorism, as was common in Kashmir, that now we would empathize with them and seek a solution to the causes of terrorism. Sadly, instead of helping or trying to solve the mystery of who attacked and why, the U.S. reacted by exploitng old animosities, attacking without delay or planning, spreading the feeling of terror to people who had nothing to do with hi-jacking planes and causing destruction. I wonder how long it takes to learn from history. If Black Friday had more presence in the world consciousness - would we learn from it? Did the Indian government reaction to it generate more terrorism or reduce it? I think the disproportianate coverage of the planes flying into buildings in the U.S. has not taught anyone anything. The coverage, fear and savage response just seems puzzling to people all over the world.
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You know, I agree with your position but at the same time have to point out where technology, globalization, and the flattening of the world was in 1993 is/was no where near where it was in 2001. I mean in 1993 sitting in India I don't remember a thing about the first WTC attack (the underground car bomb).
But you should check out "War Made Easy" good film narrated by Sean Penn.
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