STATE TIMES NEWS
NEW DELHI: A documentary film made by Prof.Bhim Singh on the life of Palestinian Hero, Yasir Arafat, was released this afternoon by Palestinian Ambassador, Adnan Abu Alhaijaa in a historic function organised at India International Centre, New Delhi.
The film has been made by Singh, a Barrister and a Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India who travelled around the world on motorcycle for nearly five years from 1968 to 1973. He held several video interviews with Palestinian Hero, Yasir Arafat from 1973 to 2003 in India, Syria, Lebanon, Cairo, Tunisia, Gaza and finally in Ram Allah, the capital of Palestine.
Singh in his brief address said “While travelling around the world on peace mission on two-wheels in March, 1968, I met Yasir Arafat, a young Palestinian engineer at Palestinian refugee camp on Eastern side of the bank of Jordan River, where the Palestinians thrown out from the West Bank during 1967 war were camping. I remained in contacts with the Palestinian leader from 1968 till 2004, till his death. I had an opportunity to have several video and audio interviews with the Palestinian Hero at several places from time to time. I interviewed him in Damascus, Syria in 1973, Cairo, Egypt in 1976, Beirut, Lebanon in 1980, Tunisia (where he was staying in exile after his expulsion from Lebanon).”
This is documentary film a short presentation of interviews and interactions with Palestinian Hero, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. I am sure this film shall bring us at the threshold of struggle of the Palestinian people who have been rightly asking for statehood. A 32-minute-documentary film made by Prof.Bhim Singh was telecast in the Auditorium which was attended with pen drop silence. Several ambassadors and diplomats addressed the audience praising Prof.Bhim Singh efforts to project and promote the Palestinian cause all over the world.
