"Everything gets more muddled when compared with what Zaobao reported. While the English-language papers said Lim returned to check on the inmate after a “minute or two’’, “minutes’’ or “shortly after” Dinesh was put in the cell, Zaobao said he took 30 minutes. It also reported Lim’s lawyer as saying that the officer was unable to pay attention to Dinesh’s condition because “according to protocol, he went to get water to clean Dinesh’’. Makes you wonder if all the reporters were in the same courtroom! Muddled reporting aside, the picture emerges that Dinesh was already unresponsive (does this mean unconscious?) with eyes opened (!) even after he had pepper spray washed away from his face/eyes. How come? Was he knocked out so hard somehow that he didn’t even roll over when he found he couldn’t breathe? Or did he already “positionally asphyxiate’’ when the officers were struggling to restrain him by, for example, pushing him to the ground and weighing on him? A committee of inquiry was convened and a report sent up to the Home Affairs ministry. Doubtless, the committee and the court have got to the root of the matter. What’s needed is a clear report on how exactly Dinesh died, leaving no room for pesky questions like the ones above."
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 05:04:26 +0000
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