From our correspondent
NEW DELHI – “National sentiments”, no matter they’re, come earlier than historic fact. This is what emerges from the result of a gathering held on Tuesday 3 September in New Delhi among the many Indian leaders of Netflix and a few officers of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. To carry the large of the streaming and the federal government was a tv sequence titled IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack which dramatizes the longest airline hijacking in Indian historical past.
The story dates again to 1999when, on Christmas Eve, a direct flight from Kathmanduin Nepal, in Delhi was hijacked and made to wander for per week within the skies of South Asia – with stops at Amritsar, Lahore, Dubai e kandhar – earlier than a prisoner alternate between the Indian authorities and the 5 hijackers belonging to the Pakistani jihadist group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen put an finish to the odyssey.
From the 190 folks on boardjust one misplaced her life. But it was not successful: the Indian authorities and providers got here out badly, whereas the three jihadists exchanged for the hostages didn’t stay idle for lengthy. In the next years their footprints had been discovered virtually in every single place: within the2001 Indian Parliament storming; within the kidnapping and killing of Karachi of the Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl of 2002; within the 2008 Mumbai assaults during which greater than 100,000 folks misplaced their lives 160 folks.
But what led to the Netflix high brass assembly – who, as weird as it might sound, wouldn’t be new to comparisons with Indian politics on the contents of the TV sequence – is one thing else. Namely the truth that in some scenes two of the 5 jihadists are referred to as by the opposite hijackers Bola e Shankartwo Hindu names. That was sufficient for the troll set to work, accusing Netflix of wanting to cover the (Muslim) names of the “bad guys”.
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