25th October, 2003. It was the day of Deepavali, festival of lights...

When others were busy in celebrating the sounds and lights of the festival, a girl named Mousumi Ari, of seventeen years of age, was being tortured in her in-laws house. She was murdered eventually...

The film is part of MASUM and AHRC's on going campaign against torture. In protest against the all-pervasive torture in our soceity and the indifferent attitude of the administration towards the incidents of torture, MASUM and AHRC have jointly taken up the uphill task of continuing a sustained campaign against torture and also pointing out the loopholes inteh Criminal Justice System in India.

AHRC Video Message Calls for Greater Commitment to Burmese Struggle

Basil Fernando, executive director of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), notes in his congratulatory video message on the award of the fourth Gwangju Human Rights Prize to Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi that the people of Burma are "forced to suffer in silence" because of the denial of people's basic rights and the lack of a functioning judicial system in the country. Food insecurity, forced labour and a lack of adequate educational and health facilities are also symptoms, he says, of Burma's undemocratic system. There is no better way for Gwangju's people to commemorate those who gave their lives during the Gwangju Uprising for Korea's democracy in 1980, concludes Fernando, than to work today for the liberation of Burma's people and the creation of a vibrant democracy in the country.