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BJP uses Sri Lankan image to claim malnutrition in Kerala
16 May, 2016
India’s?Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been accused of using an image of a Sri Lankan refugee and claiming it is of a malnourished child in Attapady, in Kerala.
At an election rally, BJP president Amit Shah had flashed a copy of the magazine Outlook, dated July, 2013, which carried a cover story on the death of tribal children in Attapady.
However, local news portals have claimed that the image the magazine used on the cover showing a woman holding an under nourished child, is not a child in Kerala but in Sri Lanka, India.com reported.
The photograph reportedly featured in a 2009 US State Department report to Congress detailing ?Incidents during the Recent Conflicts in Sri Lanka?.
According to a report by the Indian Express, the US report features the image on page 64, with the caption- ?Photo taken on May 6 of a malnourished baby in the NFZ?.
It further says that the photo was taken in the North?in Sri Lanka in 2009, when the country was in the throes of a bloody war against the LTTE.
However, Outlook had committed a huge blunder by featuring the image along with their cover story on malnourishment amongst tribal kids in Attapadi.
The magazine had carried the image with the caption- ?A 3-month old infant at a camp in Attapady before he passed away?. (Colombo Gazette)
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