Borat makes video on demolition of Krishna community

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Borat makes video on demolition of Krishna community near Almaty

Gazeta.KZ - Kazakhstan

A video on the demolition of Krishna community near Almaty and comments by the

fictional Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev appeared on the Internet, Kazakhstan

 

http://eng.gazeta.kz/art.asp?aid=84249

06.12.2006

Borat makes video on demolition of Krishna community near Almaty

 

Kazakhstan today

 

ALMATY. A video on the demolition of Krishna community near Almaty and

comments by the fictional Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev appeared on the

Internet, Kazakhstan Today reports.

The authors of the video "Borat: Kazakhstan - Is it just a funny movie?"

compiled documentary cadres of the Kazakhstan Today reports and a speech by

the fictional Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev to TV reporters.

The speech on religious tolerance in Kazakhstan by Borat is accompanied by

chronicles of the demolition showing people in civilian clothes driving the

community members out of their houses together with police and having their

houses demolished. "Shame on you, - the authors comment: - It is not funny

anymore".

Another video - "Borat Hare Krishna" - shows the British comedian playing a

Sitar and running around night city streets singing "Hare Krishna, Hare Rama".

 

Sonya Chopra, representative of the Hinduist Jainist Temple Association in

Washington, called the demolition "an evil deed". "The demolition of houses of

innocent Hinduists - is an evil deed. The falsity of the Kazakh government has

become obvious: nobody valuing the freedom of conscience should respect it," -

Sonya Chopra said in a statement circulated by the US office of the

international "Krishna Conscience Society".

The Krishna Conscience Community acquired a land plot in Karasai District,

Almaty region, in 1999. The local authorities filed a lawsuit against the

community in 2005 for a change in the purpose of use of the acquired land

plot. Recently the authorities demolished 14 houses belonging to the religious

community.