Talk:Cellular Jail
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[edit] A VERY BIASED ARTICLE
This article has a serious NPOV ISSUE. For example
The Cellular Jail is one of the murkiest chapters in the history of the colonial rule in India.
What makes it 'the murkiest chapters'? That's an unqualified statement. Where is the source? Or this
200 Freedom Fighters were transported to the islands
Freedom fighters?? Surely prisoners would be better as freedom fighter is clearly written to be inflamatory. And this
The remote islands were considered to be a suitable place to punish the freedom fighters
Again the sentence suggests innocence and unjust punishment. In spite of what offences may have been committed. That is not NPOV. There are no citations just supposition on the part of the editor.
Additionally the section on the Japanese Occupation of Island during WWII makes little or light of the attrocities committed by Japanese forces. It almost rejoices when it can be revealed
The Cellular Jail now became home to British prisoners
as if now they were getting the taste of their own medicine!
This section on Japanese occupation belittles the horrific treatment inflicted on the island's population. These actions were against innocent people not prisoners within a penal system.
For instance, due to food shortages at the end of the war, the Japanese sent more than 2,000 islanders to unpopulated islands to grow their own food. Many drowned or were eaten by sharks as they were thrown into the sea in the dark or starved to death on the beaches. Only 12 people were rescued alive. The British were running a penal colony not a death camp.
God knows how the wretches in the cellular jail faired. It would be interesting to equate standards between the British and Japanese occupiers.
This article has become a platform for a particular one-sided ideology and it needs to be re-written. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.73.134 (talk) 21:20, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
