[Assam] Engineer killed in city: Chronicle of a death untold

[UTTAM BORTHAKUR]

Apropos the mails hereunder, my only point is we have to state the facts
fully, so that the participants in this august group can draw their own
conclusions therefrom notwithstanding the opinions and emotions of a
particular sender. But, if we tend to truncate the facts to win an argument
or create a particular opinion, that would be lack of integrity and may
resemble the tactics fine tuned by Herr Goebbles. In the media also, we
notice this tendency to sensationalise an event and then ignoring the
sequel, especially when it does not subserve a particular viewpoint. This
act of blanking out does not seem to be honourable. That is my submission.

In this context, it had also been reported that the deceased was an engineer
working in a particular government department and had come to riches. It may
be by honourable means too (say bequeath or ancestral property); we cannot
speculate on that, and that cannot justify a murder from any humanistic view
point.

But, it is equally true that our hearts do not in expressed mails go with
the families of every murdered person of Assam or the world. For example,
the gruesome killing of Late Bibha Devi, teacher of Cotton College, by the
riff-raff.




>>>>>>    But recent history amply proves that those acts of violence that
can be justly or unjustly attributed to ULFA, elicit outpourings of sympathy
to victims´kinand condemnation to the real or imagined perpetrators from
certain humanists in our midst more predictably than others. I wonder if
that qualifies to be selective humanism? On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:05 PM,
kamal deka <kjit.deka at
gmail.com<http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org>>
wrote: >* ULFA or no ULFA,should not we all bemoan a tragedy of this
magnitude? *>* Or are we in a twilight zone between tragedy and humor ?*>* *
>* On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:48 AM, UTTAM BORTHAKUR *>* <uttamborthakur at
yahoo.co.in <http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org>>
wrote: *>* > xxxx According to the capable police department, the
perpetrators of the *>* > crime have been apprehended, and the driver of the
person was involved. *>* > Integrity demands that this clarification be
made. Because, we would be *>* > thinking that it was a despicable act of
the ULFA, whereas it now appears *>* to*>* > be a crime that can happen
without ULFA. *>* >*>* > *>* >>>>>>>> As a normal human being,who deeply
believes in humanity,my heart *>* > goes out to the family of the victim of
this terrible tragedy.The *>* following*>* > is from The Sentinel.KJD*>* > *
>* > By our Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, June 17: Unidentified miscreants today
*>* > kidnapped an engineer of Agriculture Department, Manik Baishya, from *
>* > Khanapara in Guwahati and killed him later on. Search is on for the *>*> kidnappers. According to police sources, Baishya was issued a demand note
*>* by *>* > the ULFA. The body of Manik Baishya and an abandoned Maruti van
were *>* > recovered near the engineering college at Jalukbari in the city
tonight, *>* > police sourcessaid. *>* >
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