“The invasion of Kuwait started on 1 August 1990, and within two days of intense combat, most of the Kuwait Armed Forces were either overrun by the Iraqi Republican Guard or fell back to neighboring Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. The Emirate of Kuwait was annexed, and Saddam Hussein announced a few days later that it was the 19th province of Iraq. More than 170,000 Indians were stranded on Kuwait soil.” from “wiki".
1. Why the evacuation?
During the Gulf war in 1990, when Saddam Hussain invaded Kuwait, the Iraqis took over the city in a few hours leaving the entire country in a state of terror. This included the fairly significant Indian community there as well. While the Kuwaiti royal family escaped to Saudi Arabia, the general population suffered great tragedies and loss. The responsibility came on the Indian government to safely evacuate the Indian community from Kuwait and hence, the largest air evacuation mission took shape.
2. What made it difficult?
Evacuating the Indian community from Kuwait was not an easy task. People were not ready to leave behind everything they had spent their entire lives earning in Kuwait. They underestimated the gravity of the situation and were reluctant to leave their well-settled lives.
Also, many people living there did not have valid travel papers as they had handed them over to their employers who were either missing or dead.
Also, Indian people took shelter in various schools and other buildings in various parts of Amman. They had to travel from various places to the Amman airport. It could not be predicted when these people would arrive and due to this, flights got delayed a lot. The crew had to stay on duty for a much longer time than the stipulated duty hours which created a lot of tiffs.
3. How did they do it?
Indian government officials went to Kuwait to meet Saddam Hussain and get him on board the arranged repatriation of Indian nationals.
As the help reached on August 14 (12 days after the invasion had taken place), Indian citizens were angry as they were expecting a quicker intervention by the Indian government. But, the then Foreign Minister I.K. Gujral quickly brought the crowd under control and in no time had them shouting “Bharat Mata ki Jai”.
Initially, a few military aircrafts were arranged to evacuate the elderly, women and children. But due to a lengthy air space clearance procedure, this did not seem like a feasible solution. So the government turned to Air India for assistance.
The Indian Air Force deployed its IL 76 aircraft for a steady communication link between Kuwait and Delhi government officials. The situation was severe and required immediate help and attention. The Kerala government came forward and dispatched food items for the Indian nationals in Kuwait.
There were far more people to be evacuated than expected. But, the coordination and team work of the people on the mission managed to evacuate all the Indian nationals out of the country. There was also a Pakistani Airline crew stranded in Kuwait and they wished to be evacuated by Indian aircrafts. On humanitarian grounds, the Indian officials agreed.
The successful operation that started on August 14 1990, continued for almost 2 months and created history, finally coming to an end on October 11.
source:
http://www.thebetterindia.com/15179/heres-need-know-largest-air-evacuation-history-india/ (copyright reserved to " The Better India")
《撤离科威特》豆瓣现在是6.9分,我也忘记了当初是什么吸引我下载这部电影,通常我是看分数下载的,对印度电影印象比较不错,不过6.9分的话我也不会轻易下载。
看完以后感觉不错,回豆瓣一看,噢,才6.9分,比较惊讶。故事情节算得上曲折,有跌宕起伏,有联系政府救援的艰难,有和伊拉克军官的周旋,有和垃圾货轮船长谈交易的波折,有联系外交人员的困难。等等。。。。
人物塑造得也不错,男主角的拿捏比较到位,不温不火,是个有七情六欲的普通人,被死亡吓坏过,在伊拉克军人面前低三下四的,在抱怨的同胞面前忍气吞声,在老婆面前也不是盛气凌人,最后也挺身而出和几个伊拉克士兵扭打在一起,是个有血有肉的角色。其他的人物,包括女主角,小器的抱怨男人,护士老婆失踪的男人,科威特女人,伊拉克军官等都塑造得很真实。
整部电影应该算不上主旋律吧,因为主要还是抨击印度政府的不作为,全靠老百姓自己努力才脱离苦海。但是颂扬了人性,是不错的作品,歌舞片段也不是很夸张,应该有个7分以上。
中国军舰从冲突中的也门疏散了571名侨民。部分网友“以小见大”地从“印度尚未撤离全部侨民”看出了“中印国力差距”。但事实上,将单次撤侨的顺利与否和国力划等号并不合理,印度的撤侨行动也绝非想象中那样不堪。根据新德里电视台(NDTV)的报道,截至3月26日,印度在也门的国民超过4000人,其中预计有2500到3000人生活在目前被叛军胡塞武装(Houthis)占据的也门首都萨那(Sanaa)附近,其余的国民则分散居住在也门各地。通过海路撤侨的线路主要是从亚丁和荷台达(Al Hudaydah)进行,而印度侨民的主要聚居地萨那距离最近的海港也有近400公里,让这些生活在萨那附近的印度侨民穿越交战区前往海港难以保证他们的安全。另外,印度还答应在印度侨民全部撤离后帮助孟加拉国撤离其在也门的约2000名侨民。相较之下,中国在也门的侨民人数相对较少,只有不到600人,撤侨行动的规模要小很多。
印度的电影超过华语电影太多,印度也是一个伟大的民族,印度的辛德勒
印度主旋律
阿三的片子必须是不分场合不分青红皂白的跳舞的。
男主太圣母了
男主简直就是本·阿弗莱克失散多年的兄弟,恍惚之间我还以为我在看《逃离德黑兰》。BTW,作为战争片,演着演着开始集体跳舞真的好吗,看得我TM尴尬症发作😓
比较平实、真实,撤退行动主要是靠沟通和关系并非武力营救,没有激动人心的情节渲染。但是有两个地方还是蛮感人的-妻子怒怼挑刺大爷和结尾处那个普通官员默默的微笑。
一跳舞男主气场全泄了
卢旺达大饭店既视感
勉强两分,技术环节都是流畅,选的歌也挺好听,也不拘泥于印度电影传统的歌舞表现手法了,总的来说电影观念继续和国际接轨。但是剧情的设置、演员的选择上还是草台班子的意思,矛盾的制造者一是各国政府,二是队伍里的事逼老头,很容易看腻
根据真实故事改编,虽然很主旋律但两个副线角色做的很好,老大爷和科威特女人。印度人民真的为国家感到骄傲的,全场欢呼口哨故障。印度电影完胜好莱坞
看到中间可以感受到男主必然是基于真实事件改编,煽情很刻意,歌却很好听。如果没有那个演技派老头,这部剧简直就没有内部矛盾了,他如同无能的政府一样关键。但还是要赞扬这部电影,主旋律,辛德勒,敢作为的官员,还有祖国,国旗。
不用和《逃离德黑兰》相比,其实和前不久那部《无路可逃》比较,这部电影都差很多。想营造紧张气氛,并没能很好的保持紧绷,想写混乱中的人性,也没能深入。看看歌舞得了。。。
祖國就是自己
1990年科威特撤侨,印度商人几凭一己之力让17万同胞成功撤退的故事。给民族精神和自豪感大唱赞歌的同时,印度政府的不作为,对本国公民人身安全的漠视也让人瞠目结舌。“我没有问,我的国家对我做了什么”流露了无奈与心酸。造作的人设和叙事,见缝就插的歌舞桥段,出戏效果明显,破坏了整体情绪和节奏
最后Vande mataram的变奏调子一出来,我真的热泪滚滚而下。我一直认为爱国是人的本能,不需要肉麻宣教、虚无否认也是枉然。印度的爱国片为什么比中国的好看感人,就是因为他们清楚这个道理,祖国就是自己,再烂也是自己的。
去或者不去,是你们自己的决定,但是在约旦有十七万五千人在等待着我们,而他们唯一的过错就是他们是与我们没有血缘关系的同胞。我无法给你们一个为他们冒生命危险的理由,最好的方法就是由你们自己找出一个理由,然后去拯救他们的生命。
感谢中国好闺蜜赠票~外面大雪纷飞,上海终于变白啦~
根据真人真事改篇,如此不入流的传记片!是的,你很难在片中找到感觉,说白了就是代入感差!而且某些演员干燥无味,死气沉沉!尽管它努力效仿西方某些类型片要素,尽管它真是一场伟大的救援行动。但以这角度来说,火候不够啊!PS:起码人家能敢于批判ZF!
在战火中拯救难民,前有《卢旺达饭店》《逃离德黑兰》,今有《撤离科威特》
也许是最特别的一次观影体验。在印度斋浦尔的全球十佳影院Raj Mandir看的。全程印地语,演员演技不错,所以居然完全看懂了,最后印度国旗竖起的一刻,全场掌声口哨声叫喊不断,氛围太好了。