The Dhemaji Tragedy : An
Undefined Chapter
It is a documentary of 40 minutes,made in 2015. by Parthajit Baruah. BEST DIRECTOR AWARD at
Kolkatta International Short Film Festival, 2015
Synopsis of the documentary : The 2004 Dhemaji
Tragedy left the millions of people in India shocked. On 15 August, 2004,
people of Dhemaji, (a small district of Assam, India) who were mostly school
children (aged between 12 to 14) and their mothers, gathered at Dhemaji College
ground for Independence Day parade. But at around 8:45 am. a powerful bomb that
was planted near the college gate, triggered by a remote-controlled device,
went off killing 10 school children and 3 elders and injuring many. The ULFA,a
banned organisation of Assam accused of carrying out the explosion, apologized
in 2009 for the killing of school children and three women at the Independence
Day. The distressed parents are, however, not yet ready to forget the explosion
and forgive them what they did. Touching all these issues, the documentary
Dhemaji Tragedy focuses on the psychology of the parents of the dead school
children and what Independence Day signifies to them now.
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