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Relatives beg for release of Dinesh DUBAI, Dec 4 (AFP) - Relatives of Dinesh Rajarathnam taken hostage in Iraq delivered a tearful appeal for his release on Friday on pan-Arab television station Al-Arabiya. Wife Dorina Rita said Dinesh Dharmendran Rajaratnam had gone abroad "to give his family a better standard of life," as the tears ran down her cheeks. "Since his kidnapping, we - my children and me - are in need. I beg you, return him to us. We cannot live without him," she added. "I beseech you to give him back alive. To us he is more than a father, he is also a friend. We cannot live without him," said son, Santoch Komar, also crying as he sat next to his mother. Rajaratnam, 36, and Bangladeshi trucker, Abul Kashem, 42, were working for a Kuwaiti company when they were grabbed by the so-called Islamic Army in Iraq. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse has also begged for Rajaratnam's release since Al-Jazeera television broadcast footage of two abducted drivers, one from Sri Lanka and the other from Bangladesh, on October 28. The IAI has also claimed the kidnapping of two French journalists in August, as well as the murder of an Italian journalist. |
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