Shadow of the Holy Book
Shadow of the Holy Book exposes the immorality of international companies doing business with the dictatorship of oil-and-gas-rich Turkmenistan, thus helping to hide its human rights and free speech abuses — all in the name of profit and corporate greed.
Turkmenistan has some of the world’s largest oil and gas reserves in the world — along with one of the worst records on human rights. Western companies long supported the country’s dictator, Saparmurat Niyazov (who called himself Turkmenbashi), through translating and praising the Ruhnama, his book of social and political propaganda and revisionist history. Shadow of the Holy Book explores how some companies use the Ruhnama to gain access to the country’s rich resources.