Hakani

h2. Hakani - paving a road to hell In this Q&A, Survival's director Stephen Corry explains why Survival is against _Hakani_. <ul class="links"> <li><h3><span class='bullet'>»</span> <span class='icon'><img src='/lib/img/structure/icon_zip.png' height='23' width='22' alt='PDF' /></span><a href='/files/background/hakani-qanda.pdf'><strong>'Hakani' Q&A with Stephen Corry</strong></a> <small>(PDF)</small></h3></li> <li><h3><span class='bullet'>»</span>  <a href='/informacao/hakani'><strong>'Hakani' interview with Stephen Corry</strong></a> <br /><small><em>in Portuguese</em></small></h3> </li> </ul> Extracts below: h3. _You object to the film ‘Hakani’. Why?_ Stephen Corry: It’s faked. It puts together footage from many different Indian tribes and uses trick photography to make its point. It wasn’t filmed in an Indian community, the earth covering the children’s faces is actually chocolate cake, and the Indians in the film were paid as actors. h3. _The filmmakers say it’s a re-enactment, not a fake. How do you respond?_ Stephen Corry: It’s presented as entirely real. The opening title of the complete film reads, ‘A true story’, and only at the very end is the viewer told it’s a re-enactment. The trailer, which has been seen by far more people, doesn’t mention it at all. If it were broadcast here, that would be mandatory. If [the infanticide] happened as portrayed, it’s an extraordinary isolated case. After decades of working in Amazonia, we know of no Indian peoples where parents are told to kill their children. It just doesn’t happen. h3. _Why oppose the film if it’s just trying to stop infanticide?_ Stephen Corry: The film and its message are harmful. They focus on what they claim happens routinely in Indian communities, but it doesn’t. It incites feelings of hatred against Indians. Look at the comments on the YouTube site, things like, ‘So get rid of these native tribes. They suck’, and, ‘Those amazon mother f---ers burrying (sic) little kids, kill them all’. The filmmakers should be ashamed of all the harm this film is doing to the people they are trying to help. It’s propaganda to bolster the evangelical campaign for a very dangerous principle, the so-called Muwaji law, which has been presented to the Brazilian Congress. h3. _What’s that?_ The Muwaji law focuses on what it calls ‘traditional practices’ and says what the state and citizens must do about them. It says that if anyone thinks there is a risk of ‘harmful traditional practices’, they must report it. If they don’t, they are liable to imprisonment. The authorities must intervene and remove the children and/or their parents. All this because someone, anyone, a missionary for example, claims there is some risk. "*Read more online at Scribd.com*":http://www.scribd.com/doc/6154596/Hakani-Paving-the-way-to-hell or "download the PDF":/files/background/hakani-qanda.pdf

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'Hakani' is a film produced by the American fundamentalist missionary organisation _Youth With a Mission_. It claims to be the "true story" of a Brazilian Indian child called Hakani who was supposedly buried alive by her tribe, the Suruwaha. In fact, the film was faked - and even the missionaries who produced it '<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-09-22-infanticide_N.htm">admit there is no way to verify what they say happened</a>'.

h2. From the web <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_youtube_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Hakani on Youtube*":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbjRU6_Zj0U <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_wikipedia_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Hakani article on Wikipedia*":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakani:_A_Survivor%27s_Story <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*USA Today article on Hakani*":http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-09-22-infanticide_N.htm <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Sign Indians' petition for consultation on law*":http://www.petitiononline.com/14GATOS/petition.html <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Hakani official website*":http://www.hakani.org/ <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Youth With a Mission - creators of Hakani film*":http://www.ywam.org/ <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Hakani Q&A with Stephen Corry @ Scribd.com*":http://www.scribd.com/doc/6154596/Hakani-Paving-the-way-to-hell h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_pdf_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Hakani Q&A with Stephen Corry*":/files/background/hakani-qanda.pdf <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />  "*‘Hakani’ Entrevista com Stephen Corry*":/informacao/hakani "(Em português)":/informacao/hakani h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a> (<a href="/news/about-feeds">what's this?</a>)<br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go »" /> </form> </div>

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