From the Shadows - Bitchitra Collective
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FROM THE SHADOWS uses the imagery of public art to delve into missing narratives.
Paint cans and stencils in hand, artist Leena Kejriwal sprays splattered walls with a black shadow of a girl. Curious onlookers stop to stare at her message #missing #everyeightminutes. The day a missing girl returns and asks for help to file a case against her traffickers, Leena needs to step up from being an artist to support a prosecution case. A grueling court battle questions whether law enforcement agencies instead of protecting victims are part of a network that exploits them? Why is the conviction rate for trafficking less than 10% in India so traffickers roam free while thousands of girls continue to go missing. Leena connects with veteran activist Hasina who has helped a survivor win the rare conviction of a political kingpin despite 400 witnesses turning hostile.
FROM THE SHADOWS takes us on a rocky journey through the Indian subcontinent’s most trafficked route, connecting stories of survivors and the women who fight alongside them in a courageous bid for justice.
Citation
Main credits
Menacherry, Miriam Chandy (film director)
Menacherry, Miriam Chandy (film producer)
Banerjee, Triparna (screenwriter)
Other credits
Cinematography, Ranu Ghosh; editing, Irene Dhar Malik; music, Parvathy Baul.
Distributor subjects
Criminal Justice System; Gender and Female empowerment; Child RightsKeywords
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[children playing]
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[music]
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[vehicle passing]
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[spraying]
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A little down
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it's tilted from this side.
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Can you tell them?
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It is tilted from here.
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It says missing girls but
what does that mean?
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It's a girl.
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She is lost.
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Yes,the girls who are lost
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there is no trace of them.
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The age of the
missing girls is reducing.
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Earlier their age used to be 18,
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then 16, then 15
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do you know what the age is now?
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12 years.
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[door rattling]
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Why I am putting stencils wherever I want
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across India.
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And if someone asks me
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do you not want to take permission?
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I say no.
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Why should I take permissions?
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Trafficking happens in other countries.
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No!
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Does it happen here as well?
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Yes, it happens everywhere,
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It can happen in your neighbourhood as well.
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She has come here from Shillong.
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She too works on this issue.
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Both of them work together.
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So we are making these...
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That's very good!
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[vehicle approaching]
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[train whistle]
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[wings flapping]
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[steamer siren]
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[crows cawing]
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[metal gate opens]
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Will you open the terrace?
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What memories!
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Howrah Bridge is over there
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And the view is at the back.
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As a kid what did you see over here?
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We weren't allowed to see
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we weren’t allowed to look this side.
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And I remember this terrace
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and I remember all these clothes
which used to hang here.
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And...
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we used to take really
fleeting glimpses you know
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we weren’t allowed to
stand here too long.
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Like nobody should catch
us looking that side.
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But you know,
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I remember sounds from here
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I remember I was studying for
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a Higher Secondary Exam
at 2'O clock at night
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and I heard a blood-chilling scream.
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But it's a scream which won't leave you.
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[camera clicks]
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[camera clicks]
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So I got them into my studio.
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I was still figuring out my form.
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And that's...
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Sumitra
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The form
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the missing form.
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And then from there emerged
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This
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She is a black hole
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into which millions of girls are disappearing
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from the face of the earth.
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Because those millions can
only be encompassed
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with a black hole.
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[wind blowing]
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[camera clicks]
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[goat bleating]
[camera clicks]
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How old were you when they lured you?
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I was 14 years old
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At 14 years you wanted
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to leave to work in Kolkata?
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Yes.
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At that time they were trying
to fix my marriage,
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they took me to meet the boy.
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The day he saw me, he wanted
to get married the same day
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I refused and ran away from there
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my mother, father and aunts
were furious with me.
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Will you give me a hand?
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Thank you!
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The ones who sold you
were your neighbours?
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Yes, they live on that hillock
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So you visited their house
since childhood?
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Yes, I used to play with their daughter.
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They sold me just after
their daughter's wedding.
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They are at home right now.
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Who?
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The people who took me.
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Are they causing any problems?
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No, but while returning home at night
I am scared.
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You get scared.
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[sombre string music]
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It's a very rare thing that a
survivor runs back, escapes.
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That place (Red light area in Delhi)
is totally difficult to escape
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and the fact that her case has
now come to court
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because most of the time
they get drowned.
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We must have done something right
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something happened and the
legal notice came,
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and we were able to
start the process.
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While ordering the food he
spoke to the waiter secretly?
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No. Umm... he actually went
to the counter to order
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We were at the table.
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While he was ordering
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I couldn't hear what he said.
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Okay
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He got the meals for us.
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After eating I started to feel drowsy.
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Yes!
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I started to feel dizzy.
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See that's why he went away.
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He told them to mix
something in your food.
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Next day he asked me,
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do you know what kind of
work happens here?
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I said no.
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He said girls do "those kinds of things here".
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I said I won't do that.
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Why didn't you tell me before?
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He said you wouldn't have
come if I told.
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I kept on saying no.
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He started hitting me.
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The same day he raped me.
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Against your will?
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Yes, against my will.
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He gagged me
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tied my hands,
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and then he forced
himself onto me.
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He said you have been sold to me.
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For how much?
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5 Lakhs rupees
(6500 USD)
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[Silence]
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Samina was calling but every time
from a different number.
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The police couldn't find
the tower location.
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Meanwhile her mother
received a call from her,
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She said she is on a train.
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We saved the number from which she called.
-Then you picked her up from Howrah station?
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Yes, I received her there.
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[vehicle honking]
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[Astrologer outside court] There are
12 zodiac signs and 9 planets
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Mars, Venus, Saturn
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Throw it now.
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Mercury, Sun, Moon, Jupiter
know which is strong.
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Hold it tight.
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Know why you need gemstones,
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know how they can change your life.
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Know which planet is affecting your success,
or making you suffer?
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Throw it.
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Which planet is bringing you losses?
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[typewriters clacking]
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Tell everything as you said in the report
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There is nothing to worry about.
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See, people who live in remote islands,
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they too fight cases.
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That's why I came.
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She is the one who
masterminded my abduction
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The one who is standing there
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the one in the print
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green and white.
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Now she's coming here.
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Why are you filming?
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What are you going to use it for?
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Why can't I shoot?
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No, you can't.
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Go report us to the police station.
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I am not really scared of her in passing.
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But sometimes when
I have to face her
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I am scared they might
throw acid on me.
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I have a friend called Manisha.
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It happened with her,
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she was walking down a crowded
road one evening
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and yet someone came close,
flung acid on her and fled.
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You are scared that
might happen to you?
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Hmm. Manisha is a very brave girl
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she gives me courage.
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She is not scared even
after the acid attack.
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She keeps telling me,
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"Don't be scared, fight until the
end whatever happens"
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That is right.
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We are getting help
from the police as well.
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The Superintendent of Police spoke
to me after the complaint.
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Can I say something?
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Police says nothing will happen
but if the accused harms me
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Yes I will fight the case but
I will not get back my life.
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[vehicle honking]
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This is such a big case,
and if we lose
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I will lose faith in the
police and the system.
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[birds chirping]
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[Ella’s voice from laptop]
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I was summoned to the court to testify.
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First, the brothel owner hired
people to kill me.
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Then they tried to bribe me,
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so that I don't give
my testimony in court.
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I refused to accept the money.
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I was really happy when those
criminals were punished
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I could tell the judge the truth
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I wasn't scared of telling the truth.
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How many girls were there
in the film course?
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There were six girls
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Six? So six films were made?
-Yes
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Your film has got so many views
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even from the USA,
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people really liked it.
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What was your experience
while making it?
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It was good.
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What did they teach in the workshop?
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In the workshop, we were taught
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suppose someone is sitting like this
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then what story that posture tells?
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We were taught these things.
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For example, in that picture
with you and Hosnara
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she looks so happy riding piggyback
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and even you look happy.
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But most of the survivors
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don't want to show their faces on camera.
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Yes, because they are scared
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they don't want anyone to know
what happened to them
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or to recognise them.
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The ma'am from the workshop asked me
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if they can show my face?
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I said go ahead.
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Anyways everyone has seen me
on the national channels.
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[Hasina] If we look at Ella's case for instance
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when she was rescued, 400 other girls
were rescued with her
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but most of them were repatriated back to
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Nepal and Bangladesh.
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And when that case was going on in court,
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since the person was very powerful
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and owned half of GB road
(largest red-light area in Delhi)
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in terms of money and how the
transactions happen with other
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people who are shareholders
of these kind of nexus,
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who are powerful...
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They realised that she was the only person
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who could be the witness in court.
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[chicken clucking]
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I knew after reading the documents that
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if she identified the conviction would come.
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and that was the reason that
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so many lawyers were sent to convince me,
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to convince her, because they
felt convincing me
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meaning convincing the organisation
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and they felt that the money
that would come to us
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will actually silence Ella.
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Being a survivor
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she would be convinced if I say to her,
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"Don't give the statement,
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or let's walk away,
or let's not appear in court".
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But they didn't realize that
didn't work with us.
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[vehicle passing]
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[cow mooing]
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[Rooster crowing]
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[Ella] When I was 11 years old
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my mother would just make me work.
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I didn't get time to go to school.
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One day, a stranger came home.
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My mother asked me to go with him
for work.
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He took me to Delhi,
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I was put up in a hotel.
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Later a few people came and said
I must go with them.
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I asked, "For what?"
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They said, "You have been sold to us."
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I asked them,
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"Can a human being be sold?"
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[looms rattle]
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If only I had such a job,
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maybe if I knew how to weave
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what happened with me,
wouldn't have happened.
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[Hasina] There was a lot of flooding
in Assam this year.
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And this area near Kaziranga park
was flooded.
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We have seen a lot of men come here
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offering jobs,
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promising that these jobs are well paid.
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But we know the reality, right?
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Yes,I tell the villagers here
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don't leave the village.
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Check the news.
There are so many stories of trafficking.
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It's better to work at home, in your village.
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[whirring]
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We saw more numbers of
missing cases being reported.
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So taking that into context
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Of course, flood is an yearly affair
00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:23.840
that happens.
00:20:24.800 --> 00:20:27.480
It's a national calamity of the state.
00:20:27.520 --> 00:20:29.720
But this year because it was longer,
00:20:29.760 --> 00:20:33.040
we see more people moving out
00:20:33.080 --> 00:20:36.360
and then cases get registered
if they don't return back
00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:38.600
or they are not in contact with the family.
00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:40.320
And to add to it
00:20:40.360 --> 00:20:43.360
the neighbouring countries
that are bordering
00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:45.160
our states in the North East,
00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:46.720
made it worse because
00:20:46.760 --> 00:20:50.160
in the last 4-5 years
cross border migration
00:20:50.200 --> 00:20:52.160
and trafficking has increased.
00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:07.840
[river flowing]
00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:27.400
[birds chirping]
00:21:27.800 --> 00:21:28.920
[bicycle bell rings]
00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:26.440
[Krishna] I took Leena ma'am's camera
but I was scared as well.
00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:28.920
What if I spoil the camera?
00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:37.960
For Missing, can you do a report?
00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:42.120
and show the story of one missing girl?
00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:45.680
That story can tell how traffickers operate.
00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:49.000
It will raise awareness.
00:22:49.040 --> 00:22:51.480
Can you do that?
- Yes.
00:22:57.080 --> 00:22:58.200
[man coughing]
00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:04.080
Her father came back from work
00:23:04.120 --> 00:23:08.000
He asked where is Minara?
00:23:08.320 --> 00:23:11.400
I said she went to Shakti's office.
00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:14.720
[Shakti] When she went missing
the second time,
00:23:14.760 --> 00:23:17.400
they didn't inform us.
00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:23.280
Few days later I could connect to her phone,
00:23:23.840 --> 00:23:26.560
A boy answered the call.
00:23:26.600 --> 00:23:28.800
I asked who is this, my son-in-law?
00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:32.320
He said, yes I am your son-in-law.
00:23:32.360 --> 00:23:34.960
I wanted to speak to Minara.
00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:39.760
but he said she is not here right now.
00:23:39.800 --> 00:23:41.920
I can hear my daughter's voice.
00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:43.320
You can hear her?
00:23:43.360 --> 00:23:46.000
But they are not giving her the phone.
00:23:46.760 --> 00:23:48.320
But you can hear her voice?
00:23:48.360 --> 00:23:50.120
Yes, I can.
00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:58.480
[sombre string music]
00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:15.760
Maybe Minara left of her own will
00:24:16.320 --> 00:24:18.880
but someone has lured her into it.
00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:20.560
- The first time?
We need to remember she is a minor.
00:24:20.600 --> 00:24:24.880
Even the second time she received
a call and only then she left.
00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:27.600
She is still a minor.
00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:30.480
Even if she was called by traffickers,
00:24:30.520 --> 00:24:32.440
she was at a place where
people can protect her.
00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:35.880
People who rescued her
are also within reach
00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:40.040
I find it hard to believe that
she was trafficked
00:24:40.080 --> 00:24:41.120
for a second time.
00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:44.720
Can someone just call and
take one away from their home?
00:24:44.760 --> 00:24:48.320
If one doesn't want to go,
they will not go.
00:24:48.360 --> 00:24:50.280
I agree that she was
trafficked the first time
00:24:50.320 --> 00:24:55.560
but this time I don't think she
has been trafficked.
00:24:55.600 --> 00:24:57.160
She went of her own will.
00:24:57.200 --> 00:25:00.560
You think she went of her own will?
00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:03.080
The first time she was trafficked
00:25:03.120 --> 00:25:05.200
she thought she is leaving for work.
00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:06.520
She was 15 years old?
00:25:06.560 --> 00:25:08.720
Her family sent her to work
00:25:08.760 --> 00:25:12.560
but in one month she went missing.
00:25:13.280 --> 00:25:14.560
Think about it
00:25:14.600 --> 00:25:18.400
then she returned. We had
helped with her rescue
00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:21.240
but what did she get when she returned?
00:25:21.280 --> 00:25:23.600
She was sad...
00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:25.320
her brother and sister both say so.
00:25:25.360 --> 00:25:27.480
Nobody accepted her.
00:25:27.520 --> 00:25:29.360
Society couldn't accept her.
00:25:33.320 --> 00:25:35.400
[water splashing]
00:25:36.360 --> 00:25:37.800
[ducks quack]
00:25:39.840 --> 00:25:42.000
[spraying]
00:25:44.760 --> 00:25:47.560
[Leena] Child marriage is becoming
the route for traffickers.
00:25:47.600 --> 00:25:50.520
You make the girl vulnerable.
00:25:50.560 --> 00:25:53.440
The parents might be a part of it.
00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:56.160
And anyway it's not legal,
00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:58.480
So the first point is to stop it.
00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:25.680
[girls laughing]
00:26:28.120 --> 00:26:29.520
Turn around
00:26:29.560 --> 00:26:31.000
No together
00:26:31.040 --> 00:26:32.120
The way you were sitting before.
00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:35.160
Krishna your face is in the dark
00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:39.160
[camera clicks]
00:26:39.760 --> 00:26:42.520
Do you remember
the first time we met?
00:26:42.560 --> 00:26:44.840
I had asked you all to write down
00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:46.400
what does 'missing' mean?
00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:48.600
I still have that recording.
00:26:49.520 --> 00:26:51.360
[camera clicks]
00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:54.640
Ma'am one more
00:26:54.800 --> 00:26:56.000
[girls laughing]
00:26:56.080 --> 00:26:57.480
Oh god!
00:26:57.920 --> 00:26:59.240
Yes, we knew about it.
00:26:59.280 --> 00:27:00.920
Lots of girls went missing in Sunderbans,
00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:02.920
Especially in Kultoli.
00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:08.120
We kept hearing that girls are missing
00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:11.000
from all around.
- Cut it
00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:12.440
[chuckles]
00:27:12.760 --> 00:27:15.440
The pressure to marry builds up
00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:17.120
in the age between 14 to 20.
00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:18.920
Parents don't usually wait till they become 18.
00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:20.360
In the village they say,
00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:22.040
"A 15-year-old girl is too old."
00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:26.840
There's a proverb here
00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:28.880
"A woman of 20 is a hag.”
00:27:33.320 --> 00:27:35.640
[wind whooshing]
00:27:35.880 --> 00:27:40.240
On the very day, he came to see me,
they wanted the marriage ceremony.
00:27:40.280 --> 00:27:43.600
No one knew where he lived,
or if he was married before.
00:27:43.640 --> 00:27:46.400
They knew nothing about him?
- Nothing
00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:49.480
[train whistling]
00:27:59.320 --> 00:28:01.400
[train rattles]
00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:09.640
We heard the hearing took
place twice already.
00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:11.640
As in the summons were sent for hearing.
00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:14.360
Did you hear about this?
00:28:15.120 --> 00:28:16.160
No
00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:20.680
We weren't getting the summons.
00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:22.760
So I went to the court to enquire
00:28:22.800 --> 00:28:27.520
I learnt it had been
through 2 courts and
00:28:27.560 --> 00:28:30.320
has reached the third one.
00:28:30.360 --> 00:28:37.280
I was trying to get a date for hearing
but had no luck.
00:28:37.320 --> 00:28:39.240
Suddenly the summons came.
00:28:39.280 --> 00:28:40.440
I see.
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:43.600
But how did you find out
that the summons came twice?
00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:44.440
Summons came thrice.
00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:47.520
Yeah, but what I am saying is
that it came twice. Right?
00:28:47.560 --> 00:28:49.160
Is this the first time
that the summon came?
00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:50.600
Or did it come before?
00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:51.760
This is the first time.
00:28:57.440 --> 00:29:02.800
[Samina] We learnt that the summons came twice
00:29:02.840 --> 00:29:05.720
but it never reached me at home.
00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:10.880
I want to know, I will ask Shakti uncle
00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:13.040
why did he do this?
00:29:14.280 --> 00:29:17.600
I heard one of the accused has been
dropped from the chargesheet?
00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:20.400
The chargesheet had all four names,
00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:24.360
but when the case landed in court,
00:29:24.400 --> 00:29:27.520
one name was dropped.
00:29:27.560 --> 00:29:31.920
Our lawyer has submitted a
a petition asking to add his name.
00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:37.040
[Shampa] Do you think a case like this
00:29:37.080 --> 00:29:41.040
is very important for a
a small village like Kultoli?
00:29:41.080 --> 00:29:42.880
[Samina] Yes, I think so.
00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:45.920
There are a lot of girls
from these areas.
00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:50.320
I saw girls from Canning,
Piyormore, Notunhaat.
00:29:50.360 --> 00:29:55.160
I also saw a girl from Kultoli.
00:29:57.600 --> 00:30:00.880
[train whistles]
00:30:01.480 --> 00:30:05.640
[station announcement]
00:30:16.560 --> 00:30:18.640
[Leena] Shakti was supposed
to bring you here?
00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:22.440
[Samina] Yes. Until I saw him chatting
with the accused
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:27.320
I saw him in the same van as the accused.
00:30:27.360 --> 00:30:31.120
I asked him, "Shakti Uncle should we go?"
00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:34.120
He said, "You guys leave,
I will come in the car."
00:30:35.440 --> 00:30:38.040
From now on don't share any
details with him.
00:30:43.160 --> 00:30:46.360
Shakti can stand witness.
But don't discuss anything with him
00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:48.640
Why? I don't want him as a witness.
00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:50.760
Don't let him come in.
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:55.360
Babu, go and tell him not to come up.
00:31:02.520 --> 00:31:05.800
We found out that the main person
00:31:05.840 --> 00:31:08.080
whom our survivor was working with,
00:31:08.120 --> 00:31:10.600
making sure that her case
came to the courts.
00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:12.960
Then she actually saw him come
00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:14.120
with her trafficker,
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:16.080
that was a
very dark day for us.
00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:19.000
That was the reason her case
hadn't come to the court and
00:31:19.040 --> 00:31:20.400
she wasn't getting a call.
00:31:20.440 --> 00:31:23.200
When we pushed it
suddenly the letter came.
00:31:25.080 --> 00:31:28.080
[vehicle approaching]
00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:44.960
[Samina] I heard there are multiple cases
against the accused.
00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:47.120
He is a seasoned criminal.
00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:49.360
[Samina's lawyer] She is lucky
to have come back.
00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:51.520
Criminals have many aliases,
00:31:51.560 --> 00:31:53.960
they have multiple identity proofs.
00:31:54.800 --> 00:31:57.600
They have their network of people
00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:00.440
who are experts in forgery.
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:01.520
Do they forge everything?
00:32:01.560 --> 00:32:05.560
They make fake documents in a day
or even 10 minutes
00:32:05.600 --> 00:32:06.640
Oh god!
00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:07.960
This is horrible.
00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.680
That's how it is,
00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:13.720
criminals have their own international network.
00:32:13.800 --> 00:32:16.400
[train whistle]
00:32:51.560 --> 00:32:54.640
[indistinct announcement]
00:32:55.120 --> 00:32:56.520
[bicycle bell ring]
00:33:16.360 --> 00:33:19.720
[school bell rings]
00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:23.480
[School Principal] I heard you stopped
two child marriages
00:33:23.520 --> 00:33:26.480
and some incidents when
you helped a runaway bride?
00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:28.960
We told her to stop crying,
00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:30.920
we will not allow the wedding to take place.
00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:32.480
We tried to explain this to her parents
00:33:32.520 --> 00:33:33.560
and her grandmother as well
00:33:33.600 --> 00:33:34.760
but they refused to listen.
00:33:34.800 --> 00:33:37.240
Then we decided to do something ourselves.
00:33:37.280 --> 00:33:40.400
We called the Child Line
and told them everything.
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:43.000
The officials from Child Line arrived.
00:33:43.040 --> 00:33:44.960
They explained to the grandmother
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.520
that if you go ahead with the wedding
00:33:47.560 --> 00:33:49.320
you will be jailed.
00:33:49.360 --> 00:33:51.640
The family got scared and
cancelled the wedding.
00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:52.520
Very good.
00:33:52.560 --> 00:33:56.040
Teach us how to live for our country.
00:33:56.120 --> 00:33:59.320
Teach us how to die for our country.
00:33:59.360 --> 00:34:02.280
May we be devoted to our country.
00:34:02.320 --> 00:34:05.320
God show us the way.
00:34:05.360 --> 00:34:08.480
Let kindness be our education.
00:34:08.520 --> 00:34:10.720
God show us the way.
00:34:12.120 --> 00:34:13.280
What's written on it?
00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:14.760
Veerangana (The brave girl)
00:34:15.040 --> 00:34:17.080
I can read only that much Bengali.
00:34:18.640 --> 00:34:21.520
All the other awards are also for bravery.
00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:24.320
Do you want to see them?
00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:25.680
Shall I get them?
00:34:33.880 --> 00:34:37.240
I can only read my name on these
awards - Seema Saha.
00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:42.680
I received this in the
Dadabhai sporting club
00:34:42.720 --> 00:34:46.080
from a social organisation.
00:34:48.400 --> 00:34:50.840
This was during the Holi festival.
00:35:03.520 --> 00:35:05.560
Where should we sit?
00:35:08.160 --> 00:35:10.480
Let's sit there.
00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:24.680
There are a lot of lanes here
00:35:24.720 --> 00:35:26.280
around 4 lanes.
00:35:27.080 --> 00:35:29.480
A lot of people do drugs here.
00:35:29.520 --> 00:35:31.560
Even by the tracks.
00:35:31.600 --> 00:35:33.720
People gamble here as well.
00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:34.720
The temple.
00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:36.960
So what if it's a temple,
it's still unsafe.
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:40.840
Most of the boys sit here
with their phones,
00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:44.160
gamble and pass lewd comments
at every passing girl.
00:35:44.200 --> 00:35:47.200
Fights always break out here.
00:35:47.240 --> 00:35:49.800
Someone once asked them why they
are sitting in the temple?
00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:52.160
They were beaten up for asking.
00:35:52.200 --> 00:35:56.240
And you get addictive medicines
and stimulants.
00:35:56.280 --> 00:36:02.760
You get them here and here,
even drugs are sold here.
00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:05.400
Who taught you about mapping?
00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:09.640
Three years ago, there was a
project our group took part in
00:36:09.680 --> 00:36:12.080
through an organisation.
00:36:12.120 --> 00:36:15.000
In that project, we were taught
00:36:15.040 --> 00:36:19.360
mapping out safe and unsafe zones for girls.
00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:22.880
Areas where girls can go in the day,
but not at night.
00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:27.680
We have shared this with the
police, mother's meeting,
00:36:27.720 --> 00:36:29.880
and with the ward councillor,
00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:32.920
but there hasn't been any change.
00:36:35.640 --> 00:36:37.600
[train whistle]
00:36:56.760 --> 00:36:58.040
As we travel now
00:36:58.080 --> 00:37:00.240
we are reaching the Nepal border.
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:03.560
So we have Panitanki village
on the Indian side.
00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:07.480
Nepal side is Kakarbhitta
00:37:07.520 --> 00:37:11.600
is mostly like the hub of transportation.
00:37:11.640 --> 00:37:14.520
That is also the route where trafficking
00:37:14.560 --> 00:37:16.480
happens most of the time.
00:37:16.520 --> 00:37:17.440
People come from Nepal
00:37:17.600 --> 00:37:21.040
and then they go to other places.
00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:47.800
The nexus of trafficking are
managing to get these visas
00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:50.000
they are managing to get these passports...
00:37:50.040 --> 00:37:52.880
If a person is crossing over with a proper visa
00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:56.240
from a particular place which is permitted
00:37:56.280 --> 00:37:58.040
you can't... I mean,
00:37:58.840 --> 00:38:01.040
I mean,intervene much.
00:38:01.080 --> 00:38:03.200
It's a big problem.
00:38:03.240 --> 00:38:05.680
Unless there is co-ordination
between immigration
00:38:05.720 --> 00:38:07.200
and the BSF (Border Security Force)
00:38:07.240 --> 00:38:09.960
and the other counterparts
that work on the issue.
00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:13.120
If it's not there
it's going to be like a big challenge.
00:38:22.080 --> 00:38:22.960
[camera clicks]
00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:36.480
[camera clicks]
00:38:36.720 --> 00:38:38.480
Your first destination was Bangalore?
00:38:38.520 --> 00:38:39.680
Then where did you go?
00:38:39.720 --> 00:38:41.880
I was sent to Chennai from there
00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:45.720
but the police raided the bus on the way.
00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:49.000
Someone tipped off the
police about the racket.
00:38:59.880 --> 00:39:02.920
[Rescued girl] My mother had
fixed my marriage.
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:06.160
I begged my mother not to get me married
00:39:06.200 --> 00:39:08.080
but my mother was insisting.
00:39:08.120 --> 00:39:10.920
I told this to a friend.
00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:14.480
She said, she and her
father are going to India.
00:39:14.520 --> 00:39:16.720
I had no idea where India was.
00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:18.720
She said India is nice
00:39:18.760 --> 00:39:20.720
you can do whatever you want,
00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:26.440
She said I will get a
good job in a company.
00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:28.640
I agreed to go with them.
00:39:28.680 --> 00:39:30.960
That's how my friend and her father
lied to me
00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:33.080
and brought me to India.
00:39:33.520 --> 00:39:36.000
This is our Bangladesh.
00:39:36.040 --> 00:39:38.240
When I lived there
00:39:38.720 --> 00:39:40.800
our house was surrounded by water
00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:44.800
and we used to play and swim around.
00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:50.280
I used to go for a swim with my friends
00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:55.520
and catch fish in our shawls
and collect them in this pot.
00:39:55.560 --> 00:39:57.920
When I felt lonely in the shelter home
00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:00.880
I used to remember this scene
00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:02.440
and I made these.
00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:07.120
I love horses
00:40:07.160 --> 00:40:10.840
and I have a dream,
00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:14.560
of riding away into the forest.
00:40:14.600 --> 00:40:19.320
Sometimes these pictures make
me remember everything
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:22.440
and I have a breakdown.
00:40:23.160 --> 00:40:24.920
I break things,
00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:27.360
and I cut my wrist.
00:40:33.120 --> 00:40:35.240
[anklet chiming]
00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:46.360
First, I want to go home.
00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:49.760
Of course, first you'll go home
and meet your family.
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:53.160
When you go back to Bangladesh...
00:40:53.200 --> 00:40:55.280
I am going after so many years.
00:40:55.320 --> 00:41:00.560
...you'll have so much to catch
up with your parents.
00:41:17.120 --> 00:41:18.880
[Rescued girl] My brother and mother
will be there.
00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:21.160
I saw my mother's photo.
00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:27.080
I know how to sew, but not how to cut.
00:41:27.120 --> 00:41:28.200
That is all right.
00:41:28.240 --> 00:41:31.280
Tailors can give you some
work like sewing hooks,
00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:35.640
fixing sarees and tears.
00:41:35.680 --> 00:41:37.360
You can start with those.
00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:39.840
You will learn from the smaller work.
00:41:39.880 --> 00:41:43.160
But you have to start with
the smaller work first.
00:41:43.200 --> 00:41:46.360
I will need somebody's help,
00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:49.840
who will advise me at home?
People will say things about me.
00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:51.200
That is what I am trying to say
00:41:51.240 --> 00:41:55.960
I have been through
these experiences as well.
00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:57.920
Which is why I am telling you
00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:00.560
your family will take you back
00:42:00.600 --> 00:42:02.120
they will be happy.
00:42:02.160 --> 00:42:06.360
But after some time,
They will listen to all kinds of things.
00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:09.640
Then they will start questioning you.
00:42:09.680 --> 00:42:11.840
That's why I am saying
00:42:11.880 --> 00:42:14.080
whatever you do, do it well.
00:42:14.120 --> 00:42:17.840
No one can say anything if
I work and earn my living.
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:18.960
Correct.
00:42:19.040 --> 00:42:21.760
[bus engine revving]
00:42:22.200 --> 00:42:25.480
My brother will be there, I saw his photo.
00:42:26.640 --> 00:42:28.920
Look at my dress
00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:30.360
I embroidered it.
00:42:33.520 --> 00:42:37.080
I can't express how happy I am.
00:42:40.080 --> 00:42:41.720
I am so happy
00:42:41.760 --> 00:42:45.920
all my stress and
tension is gone.
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:47.600
I am so happy.
00:42:54.640 --> 00:42:58.240
My village is just like this.
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:39.720
[Hasina] What went today
very smoothly is that
00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:43.800
BRAC and Border Forces of India and
Bangladesh worked closely.
00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:45.080
We were there.
00:43:45.120 --> 00:43:46.880
We handed over.
00:44:01.720 --> 00:44:04.400
I want everyone to speak to the survivors
00:44:04.440 --> 00:44:08.000
with a free mind and an open heart.
00:44:08.040 --> 00:44:13.240
So that they aren't forced to
return to the same place they escaped from.
00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:16.640
[motorbike passing]
00:44:29.520 --> 00:44:31.520
Today we had a hearing
00:44:31.560 --> 00:44:33.760
but the IO (Investigating officer), didn't come.
00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:35.760
The Public prosecutor had asked him
00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:37.440
to come for a 'personal appearance'
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:40.280
to know why he struck off the name
of an accused.
00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:42.200
We wanted to know his answer.
00:44:42.240 --> 00:44:47.200
But despite the order,
he didn't appear in court today,
00:44:47.240 --> 00:44:49.720
the Investigating Officer didn't appear in the court.
00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:52.560
So today a warrant has been
issued against him.
00:45:01.600 --> 00:45:03.440
[train whistle]
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:34.360
[Samina's lawyer] The date for the next hearing
will be issued after 3 PM.
00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:36.520
The judge said you can leave.
00:45:55.040 --> 00:45:57.920
My employer always says
00:45:57.960 --> 00:46:01.520
It's been so many years
and nothing has happened.
00:46:01.560 --> 00:46:03.080
Let's see what happens.
00:46:03.480 --> 00:46:05.320
I've struggled for so many years,
00:46:05.320 --> 00:46:06.880
what's a few more?
00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:08.880
[bicycle bell rings]
00:46:12.200 --> 00:46:14.040
[Vendor] Painorex balm,
00:46:15.040 --> 00:46:20.720
this medicine works on every pain.
00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:25.960
It has no side effects.
00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:29.600
[train approaching]
00:46:38.240 --> 00:46:40.440
[coughs]
00:46:42.640 --> 00:46:45.240
[Samina] I can never forget
What I went through.
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:47.080
Even if I try to forget it
00:46:47.120 --> 00:46:49.200
I won't be able to.
00:46:50.200 --> 00:46:53.680
What happened with me,
what was done to my body
00:46:54.640 --> 00:46:58.040
there is nothing worse,
not even death.
00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:02.560
That's why I want to fight this case.
00:47:08.640 --> 00:47:11.560
[train start]
00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:19.840
[crickets chirp]
00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:30.600
[Samina] We saw them walking
around our house.
00:47:30.640 --> 00:47:32.000
[Samina's lawyer] Flashing lights?
00:47:32.040 --> 00:47:35.280
Yes. They flashed a torch
and went to the other street.
00:47:35.320 --> 00:47:37.760
It was at around 11 in the night.
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:39.440
Give me all the details,
00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:41.800
I will call the Public Prosecutor
00:47:41.840 --> 00:47:44.120
he needs to know all this.
00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:53.280
All three of them stood there, right here
00:47:53.320 --> 00:47:56.120
and said, "We must murder one of them,
00:47:56.840 --> 00:47:59.160
then let's see what happens."
00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:11.840
[Samina's lawyer] We will be informing the
public prosecutor about the threats.
00:48:11.880 --> 00:48:16.400
We will tell him this kind of harassment
00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:21.000
is detrimental to the case.
00:48:21.040 --> 00:48:26.520
The local officer will also
be informed by a letter.
00:48:46.200 --> 00:48:51.560
[vehicle approaching]
00:49:03.080 --> 00:49:06.400
[Samina] Today I had a hearing in the court.
00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:08.880
We saw the accused in the lobby outside.
00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:12.800
He said, "no matter what I will murder someone".
00:49:12.840 --> 00:49:14.800
[Police] He threatened you?
- Yes
00:49:14.840 --> 00:49:16.960
Okay, give a report in writing.
00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:20.720
[train running]
00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:32.920
You shouldn't fear.
00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:34.480
You have chosen to speak up.
00:49:34.920 --> 00:49:36.760
Yes I am protesting
00:49:36.800 --> 00:49:39.120
but I am worried about
where all this will lead to.
00:49:39.160 --> 00:49:41.320
Like how is this going to end?
- Yes the end.
00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:43.200
Let me tell you something,
00:49:43.240 --> 00:49:45.200
the way they are constantly harassing you,
00:49:45.240 --> 00:49:48.600
They broke your fence,
burst crackers in your garden.
00:49:48.640 --> 00:49:52.040
If this continues there
will be a new complaint every day
00:49:52.080 --> 00:49:56.600
the officer in charge will get irritated
and arrest them during the trial
00:49:56.640 --> 00:50:00.480
and put them in a lock-up.
00:50:01.200 --> 00:50:09.320
I am scared because they
threatened me in the court.
00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:16.240
What if they attack me
or throw acid on me?
00:50:28.320 --> 00:50:34.560
[Hasina] When your case was in the Delhi court
- Yes, I spoke about that.
00:50:34.600 --> 00:50:39.320
The judges asked me
what the verdict should be?
00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:44.200
I said traffickers should be sentenced.
00:50:44.240 --> 00:50:48.400
If they aren't punished,
the nexus will keep on growing.
00:50:50.680 --> 00:50:53.000
Do you remember what happened to us?
00:50:53.040 --> 00:50:57.000
Yes I told them (judges) we didn't
even have protection.
00:50:57.040 --> 00:51:01.320
If something had happened to us
what would have happened to the case?
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:03.560
She said to run and I ran,
00:51:03.600 --> 00:51:06.200
And we got into the cab and we just left.
00:51:06.240 --> 00:51:10.000
But when I think back to that situation,
I think
00:51:10.040 --> 00:51:15.040
that is also where a lot of
non-profit organisations in the country
00:51:15.640 --> 00:51:17.800
will have to have that courage
00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:21.240
to stand by with the survivor
00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:23.120
when she is giving a statement.
00:51:24.560 --> 00:51:26.040
Our office was ransacked,
00:51:26.080 --> 00:51:29.440
our office was attacked.
00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:35.520
I was basically at a point where I was
being pushed not to take up the cases.
00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:38.680
I never expected in my wildest dreams
00:51:38.720 --> 00:51:40.840
that the day I was travelling
00:51:40.880 --> 00:51:43.440
to Guwahati to get to the airport
00:51:43.480 --> 00:51:47.960
a truck from the other side hit my car.
00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:49.920
Of course, I was warned
00:51:49.960 --> 00:51:53.680
but I never thought in my wildest dreams
that would ever happen.
00:51:53.720 --> 00:51:54.920
I escaped that,
00:51:55.640 --> 00:51:56.960
but the driver died.
00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:00.400
So that was the signal of the power.
00:52:05.880 --> 00:52:10.560
I think that was a moment for me that took me
a while to travel again.
00:52:18.040 --> 00:52:20.280
I am at the police station now
00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:23.000
I am busy, we will talk later.
00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:25.600
[clink]
00:52:38.720 --> 00:52:41.560
Does this have to be given inside?
00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:43.160
Let's go.
00:52:54.640 --> 00:52:58.160
Sometimes they lure girls away
00:52:58.200 --> 00:53:02.240
if you can't find anyone, go to your
nearest police station immediately.
00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:04.440
Ask them to do a written report
00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:11.960
tell them your name, your husband's
name, your address.
00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:14.520
Tell them about your daughter, name, age
00:53:14.560 --> 00:53:15.840
who took her, what time she left
00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:17.800
give them all the details.
00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:19.280
This report is called an FIR,
00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:22.200
first information report.
00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:27.720
Today is Women's day
00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:29.280
I am a daughter,
00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:31.000
I am a wife
00:53:31.040 --> 00:53:34.200
and I am a mother just like you.
00:53:34.240 --> 00:53:37.720
But I heard a voice.
00:53:40.960 --> 00:53:45.560
I made this image, as a symbol.
00:53:45.600 --> 00:53:49.400
This symbol is for each and every girl
00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:54.440
who doesn't have any options.
00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:57.960
She has to do what others
want her to do.
00:53:59.520 --> 00:54:04.400
You need to become the change
you want to see.
00:54:05.160 --> 00:54:07.360
This is not an individual's battle.
00:54:08.680 --> 00:54:12.040
All of us will have to do it together.
00:54:12.960 --> 00:54:16.920
[children playing]
00:54:17.640 --> 00:54:19.800
[spraying]
00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:38.520
What are they doing?
00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:46.680
We are doing this stencil campaign.
00:54:48.440 --> 00:54:50.440
The wall outside is perfect for it
00:54:50.480 --> 00:54:53.360
a lot of people will understand
what we are trying to say.
00:54:53.400 --> 00:54:55.160
Can we use that wall?
00:54:55.200 --> 00:54:55.720
Where?
00:54:55.760 --> 00:54:58.520
The wall outside.
00:54:58.560 --> 00:55:00.160
Near the tea stall?
00:55:00.200 --> 00:55:01.920
No near the bench...
00:55:01.960 --> 00:55:03.000
How long will you take?
00:55:03.040 --> 00:55:04.000
Just two minutes.
00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:30.800
[camera clicks]
00:55:40.440 --> 00:55:42.240
Just breathe
00:55:42.640 --> 00:55:44.840
I'm telling you to use the script today
00:55:44.880 --> 00:55:46.800
you'll feel free.
00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:53.640
So how about me sharing some
hard-hitting facts with you
00:55:53.680 --> 00:55:55.960
and making you understand the magnitude.
00:55:56.000 --> 00:55:59.000
The average age of a girl getting
trafficked has dropped
00:55:59.040 --> 00:56:01.200
from 16 to 12 years
00:56:01.240 --> 00:56:04.040
and girls as young as 7 fetch
the highest prices
00:56:04.080 --> 00:56:06.240
in the sex slavery market.
00:56:06.280 --> 00:56:08.360
India in South Asia
00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:11.840
is the fastest growing hub
of sex trafficking today.
00:56:13.200 --> 00:56:14.880
So now I'm going to start okay?
00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:16.680
I'll time you.
00:56:16.720 --> 00:56:18.080
You're timing it?
00:56:18.120 --> 00:56:20.320
I think you should.
00:56:20.720 --> 00:56:23.960
A girl who costs 5,000 Rupees (65 USD)
at the village level
00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:28.880
can be sold anywhere between fifty thousand
to two lakhs (650 - 2500 USD) in a week or two
00:56:28.920 --> 00:56:32.600
and at the end of the supply chain a
brothel owner makes anywhere between
00:56:32.640 --> 00:56:35.600
7 - 10 lakhs (9200 - 13.000 USD)
per girl per year.
00:56:35.640 --> 00:56:38.440
Trafficking has overtaken
drug trafficking
00:56:38.480 --> 00:56:40.160
in the criminal industry
00:56:40.760 --> 00:56:42.840
because unlike drugs a human
00:56:42.880 --> 00:56:44.640
can be sold again and again,
00:56:44.680 --> 00:56:47.760
and that's why it makes it very
lucrative for the traffickers.
00:56:48.240 --> 00:56:50.440
Please welcome Ms. Leena Kejriwal
00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:52.840
with a round of applause.
00:56:53.400 --> 00:56:55.920
[applause]
00:56:56.000 --> 00:56:58.400
There are several
reasons why this is happening
00:56:59.880 --> 00:57:04.520
and the very basic premise of this
is that our laws are very weak.
00:57:04.560 --> 00:57:06.000
Though we all know it
00:57:06.040 --> 00:57:08.680
We all are still choosing to be silent.
00:57:09.480 --> 00:57:10.880
Suppose I tell you that
00:57:10.920 --> 00:57:14.680
in your silence too
you are the perpetuators of the crime.
00:57:15.200 --> 00:57:17.760
Suppose I tell you that
every time you are silent
00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:20.040
and you are inactive and passive
00:57:20.080 --> 00:57:23.640
you are part of the consumer
who is creating the demand
00:57:23.680 --> 00:57:28.280
and you are a catalyst
for the next victim to get trafficked.
00:57:28.520 --> 00:57:30.040
[Ferry honk]
00:57:34.920 --> 00:57:37.400
The police have been negligent
since the beginning.
00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:39.360
They played a game which is why
00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:41.480
the name of the accused
is deleted from the FIR.
00:57:41.520 --> 00:57:44.640
You are saying that this is a very important case
00:57:44.680 --> 00:57:48.040
it could become a landmark case, right?
00:57:48.080 --> 00:57:50.720
In that case, how can we let him go?
00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:53.320
Police will say we can't catch him
00:57:53.360 --> 00:57:55.840
we will get warrant after warrant.
00:57:55.880 --> 00:57:57.960
Why doesn't the Supreme Court look into this?
00:57:58.000 --> 00:57:59.040
I am also a human being
00:57:59.080 --> 00:58:01.040
I wasted 1 year of my life in the brothel.
00:58:01.080 --> 00:58:04.680
My life has been a mess
for the past 7 years.
00:58:04.720 --> 00:58:06.240
How long should I be patient
00:58:06.280 --> 00:58:08.800
repeating all the horrible things
that happened to me?
00:58:08.840 --> 00:58:10.120
I need to move on.
00:58:10.160 --> 00:58:12.160
Listen Madam...
00:58:12.200 --> 00:58:14.160
you know there is a saying
00:58:14.520 --> 00:58:15.960
patience pays.
00:58:16.280 --> 00:58:19.040
I have been patient
for 7 years of my life.
00:58:19.080 --> 00:58:20.920
These are the confines of the law.
00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:26.280
This is how they are emboldened
to rape and kidnap
00:58:26.320 --> 00:58:28.680
because our legal system is a failure.
00:58:28.720 --> 00:58:31.680
They know they can't be touched.
00:58:31.720 --> 00:58:33.200
In a 1993 case...
00:58:33.840 --> 00:58:35.160
Okay listen
00:58:35.200 --> 00:58:39.520
anyone will get worked up if
you refer to cases from 1993.
00:58:44.680 --> 00:58:46.160
Are you angry?
00:58:47.880 --> 00:58:49.200
Frustrated?
00:58:49.240 --> 00:58:51.120
We will have to follow the system.
00:58:51.520 --> 00:58:53.840
I am doing my work.
00:58:55.560 --> 00:58:59.120
I look after my expenses
00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:00.640
it's difficult.
00:59:00.680 --> 00:59:03.080
After all, that happened
00:59:03.120 --> 00:59:08.600
I was so ill I needed medication every day.
00:59:08.640 --> 00:59:11.880
Even today I am doing everything
00:59:12.160 --> 00:59:14.320
I have to provide for my family
and be strong.
00:59:14.360 --> 00:59:15.520
You are coping well.
00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:19.640
I can't even express what
a great job you are doing.
00:59:39.960 --> 00:59:41.640
[splash]
00:59:55.720 --> 00:59:56.840
Will you introduce him to me?
00:59:56.880 --> 00:59:58.240
Should I talk to him?
01:00:00.080 --> 01:00:01.560
When can I meet him?
01:00:02.040 --> 01:00:03.720
Today?
01:00:03.760 --> 01:00:05.720
We will go and meet him wherever he wants.
01:00:07.080 --> 01:00:08.840
Very good, very good.
[Shampa laughing]
01:00:09.720 --> 01:00:11.600
Do you know his family well?
01:00:14.960 --> 01:00:15.720
No ma'am.
01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:17.200
Your families don't know each other?
01:00:17.600 --> 01:00:19.760
My family knows them.
01:00:21.040 --> 01:00:22.680
And your family is happy?
01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:24.880
They are happy?
01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:30.520
Okay.
01:00:31.480 --> 01:00:34.400
You should have inquired
about the family.
01:00:34.440 --> 01:00:37.920
Now you know we have to
be practical in life.
01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:42.040
And he knows you want
to work after marriage?
01:00:42.120 --> 01:00:43.400
Yes ma'am.
01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:46.320
Where did you meet him?
01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:49.360
Hey!
01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:51.440
She is the linkman.
01:00:51.480 --> 01:00:52.600
Linkman?!
01:00:52.640 --> 01:00:53.600
No ma'am!
01:00:53.640 --> 01:00:55.280
He is her relative.
01:00:55.320 --> 01:00:56.520
Okay, he is related to you?
01:00:56.560 --> 01:00:58.240
She is the matchmaker.
01:00:59.000 --> 01:01:00.400
So who is he?
01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:02.400
He is my aunt's son.
01:01:03.760 --> 01:01:06.680
[motorbike approaching]
01:01:21.480 --> 01:01:23.080
[hammering]
01:01:25.800 --> 01:01:27.160
[camera clicks]
01:01:49.920 --> 01:01:53.080
[birds flapping]
01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:14.440
The way you explained your work
01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:20.080
about rescuing minors (from brothels)
01:02:20.120 --> 01:02:25.120
We felt it is much needed
work in our society.
01:02:25.160 --> 01:02:31.160
We wish Durbar NGO strides ahead
[clapping]
01:02:31.200 --> 01:02:35.120
to reach new heights.
01:02:36.760 --> 01:02:39.160
[clapping and cheering]
01:02:41.600 --> 01:02:44.000
[wings flapping]
01:02:49.040 --> 01:02:51.120
Now, imagine a 10-year-old girl
01:02:51.160 --> 01:02:55.360
was lured and brought here.
01:02:55.400 --> 01:02:59.360
When we rescued her, we had to
take her to the police.
01:02:59.800 --> 01:03:02.080
The strange part is
01:03:02.120 --> 01:03:07.000
that the minute the girl shows
her ID proof of age
01:03:07.040 --> 01:03:09.800
she would be whisked away
to a shelter home.
01:03:09.840 --> 01:03:11.480
And the trafficker bribes the police
01:03:11.520 --> 01:03:13.040
and walks away scot-free.
01:03:13.080 --> 01:03:14.120
What is the point?
01:03:14.800 --> 01:03:19.440
We won the court case and got permission to
perform Durga Puja here.
01:03:19.480 --> 01:03:22.160
When the media comes to interview us
01:03:22.200 --> 01:03:26.800
the journalist stands next to us
01:03:26.840 --> 01:03:29.280
and say, "Sister don't mention Sonagachi.
01:03:29.320 --> 01:03:30.120
This is not Sonagachi"
01:03:30.160 --> 01:03:32.360
I said, "We are in Sonagachi
01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:33.800
and so are you,
01:03:33.840 --> 01:03:35.600
all the girls here are in Sonagachi
01:03:35.640 --> 01:03:37.160
and the media is also in Sonagachi,
01:03:37.200 --> 01:03:38.240
so we will call it Sonagachi".
01:03:38.280 --> 01:03:40.800
They all live here, their life is here.
01:03:40.840 --> 01:03:42.840
The thing that bothers them
01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:44.480
is that we can freely perform the Puja.
01:03:45.160 --> 01:03:46.960
[people celebrating]
01:03:47.040 --> 01:03:50.560
Scriptures say, to make Durga idols you
need soil from a brothel.
01:03:50.600 --> 01:03:53.880
So how can the girls from this
area remain outcasts?
01:03:54.920 --> 01:03:56.640
[people celebrating]
01:03:56.920 --> 01:03:59.880
[blowing conch]
01:04:08.880 --> 01:04:14.800
O divine mother, dwell in my heart’s abode!
01:04:18.320 --> 01:04:24.160
dwell in my heart’s abode, divine mother
01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:28.680
Your marvellous splendour I behold.
01:04:34.240 --> 01:04:40.800
Your marvellous splendour
01:04:42.680 --> 01:04:50.480
dwell in my heart’s abode,
O divine mother!
01:04:51.520 --> 01:04:53.880
[blowing conch]
01:04:54.960 --> 01:04:56.680
[vehicle honking]
01:05:02.520 --> 01:05:03.880
You can chat with these.
01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:06.040
If you are on the phone - Facebook messenger
01:05:06.080 --> 01:05:08.960
there is a Missing Mural Walk
- Okay
01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:11.240
And you can actually chat
with each of these murals.
01:05:26.240 --> 01:05:27.760
[bird tweeting]
01:05:32.320 --> 01:05:34.400
Hello, how are you?
01:05:34.440 --> 01:05:37.200
We are fine.
01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:40.720
Do you still draw?
01:05:40.760 --> 01:05:45.960
Do you remember what you had shown us?
your sketches and drawings?
01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:47.720
Yes of course I remember.
01:05:47.760 --> 01:05:51.000
Do you have anything to show us now?
01:05:52.480 --> 01:05:56.120
I don't have anything right now, it's left in India.
01:05:57.000 --> 01:06:00.280
I have a job here now.
01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:03.000
What is the job?
01:06:03.680 --> 01:06:07.720
I do Kantha embroidery.
- Oh okay.
01:06:07.760 --> 01:06:09.400
So that's the job.
01:06:09.440 --> 01:06:11.520
We can't see you,
both of you come in the frame.
01:06:11.560 --> 01:06:13.320
That's better.
01:06:13.720 --> 01:06:14.800
How are all of you?
01:06:14.840 --> 01:06:16.520
We are good. How are you?
01:06:16.560 --> 01:06:17.520
I'm good.
01:06:17.560 --> 01:06:20.840
You don't want to do a job?
01:06:21.040 --> 01:06:22.960
No. I got married.
01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:25.800
Oh! You got married? When?
01:06:29.120 --> 01:06:31.520
4 months running.
01:06:31.920 --> 01:06:34.720
Do you like his family?
01:06:34.760 --> 01:06:37.400
Yes, everyone is nice.
01:06:37.440 --> 01:06:41.960
Did you think about getting a job?
01:06:43.720 --> 01:06:48.280
I just got married so I thought
I will wait for some time.
01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:50.400
You don't want to work?
01:06:50.440 --> 01:06:53.440
It's just been 4 months so
I'm not saying anything yet.
01:06:56.760 --> 01:06:58.600
Correct.
01:06:58.640 --> 01:07:02.920
After some time you can say
whatever you want, right?
01:07:06.040 --> 01:07:07.680
Okay so...
01:07:07.720 --> 01:07:09.560
Congratulations on the wedding.
01:07:10.040 --> 01:07:12.600
We want to talk to Samuel.
01:07:14.040 --> 01:07:14.920
With?
01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:16.640
Samuel from BRAC
(Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee)
01:07:16.800 --> 01:07:20.720
In our country context,
01:07:20.760 --> 01:07:24.960
because she is a survivor of trafficking
and came back from India
01:07:25.600 --> 01:07:27.920
it was important for the family
01:07:28.560 --> 01:07:31.520
to integrate her into the society.
01:07:31.560 --> 01:07:33.400
And she has agreed to that.
01:07:33.440 --> 01:07:35.680
I think it would be nice
01:07:35.720 --> 01:07:38.720
if she has some
income that will strengthen her
01:07:38.760 --> 01:07:40.720
as a woman.
01:07:41.520 --> 01:07:44.240
They might have been
repatriated at the same time
01:07:44.280 --> 01:07:45.760
they learnt the same thing.
01:07:45.800 --> 01:07:47.280
But then they have not...
01:07:47.320 --> 01:07:48.480
they are doing different things.
01:07:48.520 --> 01:07:50.640
That's up to independent choices.
01:07:52.240 --> 01:07:54.040
So even Ella has had these
01:07:54.080 --> 01:07:55.160
Yes
- Trips right?
01:07:55.200 --> 01:07:57.600
Yes, Ella has.
01:07:57.640 --> 01:07:59.200
I thought I will get married
01:07:59.240 --> 01:08:02.200
and live happily with my husband.
01:08:04.040 --> 01:08:06.800
If I have any issues
01:08:06.840 --> 01:08:08.600
my husband will help me out.
01:08:08.640 --> 01:08:15.120
In reality, what you least expect happens.
01:08:22.560 --> 01:08:25.920
I am coming and revisiting paintings
which I had made
01:08:25.960 --> 01:08:27.160
three years back.
01:08:35.840 --> 01:08:39.640
Now today especially after what
we have seen under COVID
01:08:39.680 --> 01:08:42.560
we have seen so much of loss,
so much of grief.
01:08:49.640 --> 01:08:51.960
They have become part of the cityscape.
01:08:52.000 --> 01:08:57.320
They have become a good language
of protest against trafficking.
01:09:17.080 --> 01:09:20.360
We are trying to shift it to
the high court now.
01:09:21.240 --> 01:09:24.160
But because of COVID
everything is lying standstill.
01:09:24.200 --> 01:09:26.440
The courts have not been coming.
01:09:26.480 --> 01:09:28.000
It's a little bit of a struggle
01:09:29.440 --> 01:09:31.720
and it's just a very long struggle for her (Samina)
01:09:31.760 --> 01:09:33.720
and it's really sad.
01:09:34.920 --> 01:09:37.640
One thing you can look at
01:09:38.920 --> 01:09:42.160
if you can also connect to similar cases
01:09:42.520 --> 01:09:45.400
with other organisations that got stuck
01:09:46.200 --> 01:09:48.960
in a similar situation of
01:09:49.400 --> 01:09:51.440
appeal or delay.
01:09:51.480 --> 01:09:54.360
One can also look at it from a lens where
01:09:54.400 --> 01:09:56.600
you are positioning it collectively.
01:09:56.640 --> 01:09:59.320
That cases like this are not getting justice.
01:09:59.360 --> 01:10:00.040
Okay great.
01:10:00.080 --> 01:10:02.160
Then you can go to the Supreme Court.
01:10:02.200 --> 01:10:04.320
And position this,
01:10:04.360 --> 01:10:07.440
in the form of public interest litigation.
01:10:09.320 --> 01:10:11.680
[kite flapping]
01:10:15.240 --> 01:10:18.600
You have to also enjoy living,
01:10:18.640 --> 01:10:19.360
isn't it?
01:10:20.560 --> 01:10:21.760
Yes?
01:10:22.880 --> 01:10:24.640
We are fighting, right?
We will continue.
01:10:26.320 --> 01:10:30.640
[song playing]
01:10:58.960 --> 01:11:01.400
She is very strong.
01:11:02.480 --> 01:11:04.840
she wants to get them in.
01:11:04.880 --> 01:11:06.480
In the beginning when she used to talk
01:11:06.520 --> 01:11:08.560
she used to narrate the whole
thing in a very simple way
01:11:08.600 --> 01:11:10.480
and she used to brush over small parts.
01:11:10.520 --> 01:11:13.880
Now suddenly she gives spurts
of insights into some spaces
01:11:13.920 --> 01:11:16.720
which she didn't even expand on earlier.
01:11:16.760 --> 01:11:19.200
So we know she is coming from a
01:11:19.240 --> 01:11:23.400
really deep place of trying to get justice.
01:11:31.200 --> 01:11:34.360
[police vehicle approaching]
01:14:21.640 --> 01:14:23.080
[spraying]
01:14:24.480 --> 01:14:26.200
[vehicle honking]