[Reader-list] Shahidul Alam detained by Indian Border Security Force

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Santosh
 
Bias clouds rationality. 
 
If you had cared to read properly the posts (by Shun-Ling Chen) on which Pawan commented you might have seen the idiocy in them in their trying to suggest that Shahidul Alam was some innocent critter ensnared by the Indian BSF.
 
If he 'strayed' into Indian territory and if was taking photographs at the 'border', the BSF did right in detaining him and ascertaining his antecedents. He was subsequently arrested by BDR. 
 
The simplicity with which it was reported that he was asked to 'come over' by BSF was ridiculous. It was unbelievable.  
 
Of course if you are one of those who's obsession is 'India-Bad, Bad-India' then you are entitled to your own idiocy.
 
Kshmendra

--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Santhosh Kumar <santhosh.kanipayur at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Santhosh Kumar <santhosh.kanipayur at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Shahidul Alam detained by Indian Border Security Force
To: "Pawan Durani" <pawan.durani at gmail.com>
Cc: reader-list at sarai.net, "Shun-Ling Chen" <schen at law.harvard.edu>
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 10:18 AM


it is hard to believe that you will believe....

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hard to believe .....
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Shun-Ling Chen <schen at law.harvard.edu
> >wrote:
>
> > http://unheardvoice.net/blog/2009/06/16/shahidul-alam-detained-by-indian
> > -border-security-force/
> >
> > Dr Shahidul Alam, well-known photographer, and founder Drik, was
> > detained by Indian Border Security Forces while working on the
> > Bangladesh side of the border on his Brahmaputra project. He called me
> > at 18:21 pm to tell me that the guards had asked him to come over, and
> > then detained him at Sahapara 21 IPP, across the border from Rowmari.
> > His two colleagues are on the Bangladeshi side of the border, and can't
> > get to him.
> >
> > Please contact Home and Foreign Ministry officials requesting that they
> > do all possible to get him released immediately. It is worth mentioning
> > that the Indian BSF have detained and killed many innocent Bangladeshis
> > in recent years, in the border areas.
> >
> > http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org/content/view/387/1/
> > News - South Asia
> > By David Brewer
> > Tuesday, 16 June 2009
> >
> > Reports from Bangladesh say that Shahidul Alam, the photo journalist,
> > blogger and founder of the Drik picture network has been detained by
> > Indian border security forces while working on the Bangladesh side of
> > the border.
> >
> > In a message to this site from Dhaka, Alam's partner says he was working
> > on a multimedia project about the Brahmaputra with two colleagues when
> > border guards took him awa
> >
> > There are now fears for Alam's safety and supporters are calling on the
> > international community to push for his release.
> >
> > The last message from Shahidul Alam came through at !8:21 on Tuesday 16
> > June when he called home to say that border security guards had asked
> > him to come over to the Indian side of the border where they detained
> > him at Sahapara 21 IPP, across the border from Rowmari.
> >
> > His two colleagues are on the Bangladeshi side of the border, and can't
> > get to him.
> >
> > At the time Alam was working on the Bangladesh end of the river
> > Brahmaputra project. He had travelled to Kurigram with two Drik
> > colleagues to take photos, video and stills.
> >
> > Contact has been made with a number of local and international media
> > organisations and government officials, including the Indian High
> > Commission.
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