The Washington Post, January 17th, 2004
The camera closes in on a shy 6-year-old Muslim boy standing in his classroom. He tells the story of how his grandfather and aunt were killed by angry Hindu mobs in the Indian state of Gujarat almost two years ago. "When my father went to save them, the Hindus chopped his fingers off," he says and stretches out his tiny fingers, enacting what he saw on that day. The boy's story is the opening shot in "Final Solution," a documentary film about a deadly wave of religious violence in Gujarat. The four-part film details the atrocities directed at Muslims and the politics of Hindu fundamentalism th...
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