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

[kamal deka]

>>> lack of integrity and may
resemble the tactics fine tuned by Herr Goebbles.<<<

Name-dropping is irrelevant.My statement was simple and
straight-forward--nothing to do with oneupmanship.To set the record
straight,my response was in reference to a particular news posting.I
did not even try to speculate who the perpetrator was even though the
original report did mention ULFA'S name.
KJD

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:14 AM, UTTAM BORTHAKUR
<uttamborthakur at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> 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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