AFGHAN GOVERNMENT BANS THE FILM THE KITE RUNNER
January 17th 2008 05:29
Afghanistan has banned the film The Kite Runner because the government in Kabul is worried that public performances might lead to rioting and violence, according to Radio Netherlands.
The most controversial scene shows the rape of a young Afghan character, an act considered highly offensive in Islamic circles. The dramatisation of conflicts between two Afghan communities, the Pashtun and Hazara, were also felt to be threatening.
The film, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by the American-Afghan author Khaled Hosseini, is about friendship and treachery in Afghanistan, from before the Russian invasion in the 1970s up to the emergence of the Taliban.
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