‘Half Moons in the Sky’

This screening marks 32 years since, on 6 December 1992, Hindu supremacist mobs demolished the iconic 500 year old mosque, the Babri Masjid, in Uttar Pradesh in India.

This triggered months of violence against Muslims and mass killings across the country.

These events, and the subsequent rise to power of the Hindu supremacist BJP have profoundly changed India. Muslims have continued to face intense state-sponsored violence: hate speech and hate crimes which are not punished but celebrated, lynchings on the pretext of punishing cow smugglers, hate -spewing religious processions inciting anti-Muslim violence; as well as campaigns of hate by religious leaders and senior BJP politicians including PM Modi himself.

There have also been extrajudicial killings, draconian anti-Muslim laws and crackdowns against protestors and dissidents, arbitrary detentions and torture, as well as collective punishment including mass arrests and arbitrary demolitions of homes and property in so-called ‘bulldozer justice’.

Against this background of grave abuses where anti-Muslim hate and persecution has been normalised, ‘Half Moons in the Sky’ (South Asia Justice Campaign and Long Take Media Collective, 2024) amplifies the voices of Muslim survivors and explores their enduring legal struggles for justice, exposing the betrayal of a community by the very system meant to protect them.

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