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By Dr. Richard Benkin
Forcefield President
Were you to visit West Bengal and tell people that cattle were being smuggled from India to Bangladesh, the most typical reaction to your comment would likely be a shrugged shoulder and something along the lines of 'yes,of course, everyone knows that.' Your listener would also tell you that 'everyone knows' the West Bengal police and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) receive a steady stream of bribes to let it happen. It is one thing, however, for 'everyone' in Bengal to know about the smuggling and massive police and BSF complicity and corruption; but it is something else for a foreigner to know it and to have obtained photographic and videographic evidence of it, which is what happened during my recent trip to the region. ......Read on.
Dr. Richard Benkin's book documenting the ethnic cleansing of the Bangladeshi Hindus is now available to US readers on his web site and on Amazon; and to readers in India and other countries from Akshaya Prakashan.
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Cattle Smuggling: Discarding Heritage for a few Rupees
By Dr. Richard Benkin
Forcefield President
Were you to visit West Bengal and tell people that cattle were being smuggled from India to Bangladesh, the most typical reaction to your comment would likely be a shrugged shoulder and something along the lines of 'yes,of course, everyone knows that.' Your listener would also tell you that 'everyone knows' the West Bengal police and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) receive a steady stream of bribes to let it happen. It is one thing, however, for 'everyone' in Bengal to know about the smuggling and massive police and BSF complicity and corruption; but it is something else for a foreigner to know it and to have obtained photographic and videographic evidence of it, which is what happened during my recent trip to the region. ......Read on.
Dr. Richard Benkin's book documenting the ethnic cleansing of the Bangladeshi Hindus is now available to US readers on his web site and on Amazon; and to readers in India and other countries from Akshaya Prakashan.
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