扔鞋事件重演 印內政部長遭飛鞋襲擊

An angry journalist threw a shoe at India's top official after a confrontational exchange during a press conference over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that left thousands dead.

The shoe missed Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram, who continued taking questions yesterday as officials escorted the journalist away.

The journalist, Jarnail Singh, was taken into police custody, but released after questioning, said police spokesman Rajan Bhagat. Singh is a veteran reporter with one of India's largest newspapers, the Hindi daily Dainik Jagran.

Before throwing the shoe, Singh - a Sikh - asked Chidambaram several questions about the Central Bureau of Investigation's findings last week that cleared a senior Congress party leader, Jagdish Tytler, from any involvement in the bloody riots that left 3,000 dead.

Chidambaram said CBI was an independent body and that the government played no role in the decision, and called for the public to be patient.

Singh, dressed in an olive-green shirt and a white turban, then threw his blue and white sneaker at Chidambaram, narrowly missing his face.

Moments later, Chidambaram repeatedly asked the reporters in the room to "settle down," and said, "the emotional outburst of one man should not hijack a press conference."

Soon after, Singh told TV news reporters that he regretted throwing the shoe but he felt Chidambaram was dodging the question.

"I just wanted to ask him how justice will be done, but he was not interested in answering the questions," he told CNN-IBN during a telephone interview from police custody. "I don't think it was the right way, what I have done, but the issue is right."

Singh did not say whether he was inspired by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who threw his shoes at former US president George W. Bush during his last visit to Baghdad.

日前，印度一位高級官員在一個新聞發佈會上與一名記者在1984年的反錫克教徒暴亂問題上發生口舌之爭，隨後這位憤怒的記者將一隻鞋向他扔去。1984年的反錫克教徒暴亂致數千人喪生。

在昨天的新聞發佈會上，印度內政部長帕拉尼亞潘•奇丹巴拉姆躲過了“飛鞋”。警方將肇事記者帶離會場後，他繼續回答現場提問。

據警方發言人拉衍•巴賈特介紹，那位名叫賈奈爾•辛格的扔鞋記者被警方關押後接受了質詢，隨後被釋放。辛格是印度最大的報紙之一印地語《覺醒日報》的一名資深記者。

在扔鞋之前，身爲錫克教徒的辛格向奇丹巴拉姆提了幾個有關上週印度中央調查局關於1984年血腥事件調查結果的問題，該調查爲印度國大黨的一位高級領導人賈格迪什•泰特勒洗清了罪名，認定其與導致三千人喪生的血腥鎮壓事件無關。

奇丹巴拉姆稱，印度中央調查局是一個獨立機構，印度政府並未對其決定施加影響，並呼籲公衆耐心等待。

（聽到這一回答後，）身穿橄欖綠襯衫，頭戴白巾的辛格便將自己所穿的一隻藍白相間的運動鞋扔向奇丹巴拉姆，差點砸到他的臉上。

過了一會，奇丹巴拉姆再三要求現場的記者“安靜”，他說：“一個人情緒化的宣泄行爲不應該攪亂整場記者招待會。”

隨後辛格在接受電視臺新聞記者的採訪時稱，他後悔扔鞋，但他覺得奇丹巴拉姆是在迴避問題。

他在被警方關押期間接受CNN-IBN電視臺的電話採訪時說：“我只想問問他，怎樣才能實現正義，但他對回答這些問題毫無興趣。我處理的方式可能並不恰當，但問題是正當的。”

辛格並未提及自己是否受到伊拉克記者蒙塔茲•扎伊迪的啓發。在美國前總統喬治•W•布什最後一次出訪巴格達期間，發生了扎伊迪向布什砸鞋的事件。