Horrors of war…Request to fellow bloggers.
Pasting from Sumit Dhar’s blog
Close your eyes and think of someone very close to you. Now imagine someone:
- Piercing this person’s ears with hot rods
- Puncturing this person’s eyes, gouging them out
- Inflicting burns on his body using cigarettes
- Breaking his bones and teeth
- And after torturing him in this brutal fashion for over 22 days, shooting him dead.
This is what the Pakistani army did to Lt. Saurabh Kalia of the 4th JAT Regiment of the Indian Army during the Kargil war. Imagine the plight of the old parents of this young man who received his body in such a state, imagine their rage and helplessness.
We talk so much about the power of the blogosphere. What use is that power if we can not help these parents by raising this issue so that it is heard by International Human Rights Organisations? We have seen instances of main stream media in the US championing issues that were raised by bloggers. Why not in India?
I am making this post with a very clear intent. I want all those who read this post to please raise this issue on their blogs. I realize, making a general appeal like that and expecting others to post will not work. Very specifically, I would like you to raise it on your blog and make two of your friends responsible for publishing it on their blogs. If everyone does that, geometric progression will take care of spreading it to all blogs in the Indian Blogosphere.
If nothing else, just sign the online petition of Lt. Saurabh Kalia’s father.
Links:
Online Petition by Lt. Saurabh Kalia’s father
Geocities Page on Lt. Saurabh Kalia
Rediff Article on Lt. Saurabh Kalia
Dilip D’Souza’s Post
Fellow ISB Bloggers…Please spread the word. Let’s harness the power of blog.
Vijay, Amit, Raghini, Ramki, Ramkumar, Ankur, Nishnt, Girish, Prameet, Chandrashekar, Parveen, Ravi, Karthik Ramachandran, Karthik Ganesan, Vaibhav, Sandeep, Suneetha, Ruchir, Haywire blog, Vineet, Sridhar and many others whom I left…And Indianblogger, metal, Sobee, Sankha…See if you guys can post this stuff in your blog…Thanks.
Signed the petition sometime back.
Comment by Ramki. — August 31, 2005, Wednesday @ 8:12 pm
hi bharani…i deleted my blog…was getting predictable and no value add in terms of info…guess i'’ll just spread the word anyway…:)
signed the petition though…
Comment by haywire — September 1, 2005, Thursday @ 12:30 am
Thanks Ramki…
Haywire…you should have kept your blog on…..Thanks for signing the petition…
Comment by Administrator — September 1, 2005, Thursday @ 8:41 pm
Thanks for posting the link. I am sure more people will post about this on their blogs because of you.
Thanks once again,
D.
Comment by Dhar — September 1, 2005, Thursday @ 10:28 pm
Done.
Hope you have a great time in Chennai !!!!!!
Enjoy life !!
Ram.
Comment by Ram — September 2, 2005, Friday @ 1:38 pm
Done and signed the petition too.Hope u enjoyed ur stay at Chennai.
Comment by Indianblogger — September 3, 2005, Saturday @ 1:04 pm
Thanks Ram, B.
. No probs sumit.
Comment by Administrator — September 3, 2005, Saturday @ 3:39 pm
Dear Bharani,
You never fail to surprise me with your work. Last time I told you to keep up the good work. This time words fail me. So I leave them unsaid…………
SK
Comment by SK — September 5, 2005, Monday @ 10:27 pm