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BSF urged to stop border killing

Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday urged a visiting Indian Border Security Force delegation to bring civilian killings on...

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BSF urged to stop border killing​

Muktadir Rashid | Published: 23:50, Mar 06,2024

Asaduzzaman Khan. — file photo

Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday urged a visiting Indian Border Security Force delegation to bring civilian killings on the India-Bangladesh border to zero and use non-lethal weapons to this end.

The home minister made the call when BSF’s recently-appointed director general, Nitin Agrawal, and his delegation met him at the home ministry as part of the ongoing 54th director general-level talks between the Indian border force and the Border Guard Bangladesh in Dhaka.

A number of BGB commanders, including its newly appointed director general, Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, were present at the 40-minute meeting.

‘We have solved most of the disputes through bilateral discussion, but a few small issues are pending…we want those to be solved too,’ the home minister told New Age after the meeting.

He said that they had urged the BSF delegation to bring the border killings to zero and advised them to use non-lethal weapons.

One of the officials who attended the meeting said that the BSF side, in reply, claimed that they had already replaced lethal weapons on the Bangladesh border.

Bangladesh also sought Indian cooperation to resolve the demarcation dispute in the Mahuri and Kusiyara rivers running through the international border.

Bangladesh officials said that India continued to hang up on the disputes about settling the boundary along the midstream of the Muhuri River despite repeated requests from Bangladesh.

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina last raised the matter with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi during a meeting on October 5, 2019, at Hyderabad House in New Delhi during her official visit to India.

The disputes on Muhurir Char came up after surveyors from both sides attempted to set the midstream border of the Muhuri River.

The attempt was made after a protocol was signed by the two countries on settling the entire land boundary and subsequent ratification of the instruments by the two countries in September 2011 during Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh’s term.

Another official said that Wednesday’s call on also put a focus on sharing real-time intelligence and mutual cooperation.

The Bangladesh side also sought cooperation so that no development work along the border in Jashore, Khagrachari, and Sylhet was obstructed by the Indian border force within 150 yards of the international boundary.

The talks will conclude on March 9 with the signing of a joint record of discussions.

Such a meeting takes place twice a year, and every time the Indian forces promise to bring the border killing zero.

But the promise was never kept.

At least 20 Bangladeshi nationals, including a member of the Border Guard Bangladesh, have been killed in the firing of the Indian BSF since June 2023, according to a rights group.​

 

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BSF renews promise to lower border killings

The Indian Border Security Force in the latest director general-level meeting with the Bangladeshi border force has renewed its promise to bring down the number...

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BSF renews promise to lower border killings
BSF chief assures reopening Rahimpur canal
Muktadir Rashid | Published: 12:13, Mar 09,2024 | Updated: 00:31, Mar 10,2024

The Indian Border Security Force in the latest director general-level meeting with the Bangladeshi border force has renewed its promise to bring down the number of shooting deaths or injuring Bangladeshi civilians along their shared border to zero.

In the 54th director general-level border conference, Border Guard Bangladesh director general Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui urged his Indian counterpart to adopt ‘necessary measures’ to reduce the border killings to zero considering the ‘sound bilateral relation’ existing between the two neighbours.


The biyearly conference between the two border forces held in Dhaka city commenced on March 5 to conclude on Saturday with the signing of the joint record of discussion.

In the joint statement, both sides agreed on bringing down the killing or injuring of unarmed Bangladeshi nationals to zero by enhancing joint patrols, vigilance, intensifying public awareness programme to uphold the spirit of a joint statement made by the prime ministers of both the countries in September 2022.


Such a meeting takes place twice a year in each of which the Indian forces have promised to bring down the border killings to zero.


But the promise was never kept, according to rights activists.

At least 20 Bangladeshi nationals, including a BGB member, have been killed in the firing of the Indian BSF since June 2023, according to rights group Ain O Salish Kendra.

Rights group ASK documented that 30 Bangladeshis were killed at the hands of the Indian BSF in 2023 alone, while the number was 23, including 16 shooting deaths, in 2022.

In 2021, the number of shooting deaths was 16, and another was reportedly tortured to death. The rights group recorded 42 shooting deaths in 2020.

At least 1,236 Bangladeshis were killed and 1,145 injured in the shooting by the Indian border force between 2000 and 2020, according to another rights group Odhikar.

In the joint press meet, the BSF chief, Nitin Agrawal, an Indian Police Service officer of the 1989 Kerala cadre, claimed that the civilian deaths were the results of self-defence and termed the civilians killed along the borders ‘criminals’, but the BGB chief termed the civilians killed along the borders ‘miscreants’ and expected no such killings to take place.

When asked why the BSF members do not use body-worn cameras or launch joint inquiries over the scores border killings, the BSF chief did not give any direct reply, but said that they have changed their weapon policy for using pump-action guns on Bangladesh border to bring casualties down.

Replying to another question on killing patterns that repeatedly show that Bangladeshi nationals received bullets on sensitive parts or upper portion of their body, the BSF chief said that although their personnel used non-lethal weapons but some ‘criminals’ with sharp weapons reached so close that the personnel had to act in self-defence.

With a force of over 2.65 lakh personnel, the BSF is India’s leading security agency responsible for safeguarding its 4,100-kilometre-long international borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Asked about similar killing of BGB sepoy Mohammad Roisuddin on the border, Nitin Agrawal declined to offer details, but said that they have shared information with their Bangladeshi counterpart.

The BGB chief at this question added that the death of Mohammad Roisuddin was not a ‘targeted killing’.


‘The incident occurred in darkness as a result of confusion on both sides,’ he said, noting that both parties have agreed on a collective effort to prevent any loss of life among uniformed personnel, be it BSF or BGB, as well as among civilian Bangladeshi or Indian nationals.

According to the joint press release, BSF chief expressed his sincere condolences for the sad demise of Roisuddin in the ‘unfortunate incident’.

Roisuddin succumbed to injuries sustained from being shot by the Indian BSF along the Dhanyokhola-Jelepara border in Jashore’s Benapole upazila on January 22.

Both sides agreed to sensitise the border populace to refrain from illegal crossing, smuggling, human trafficking, uprooting border pillars and other trans-border crimes.

The BSF chief, when urged by the BGB chief, assured of an expeditious execution in re-opening the remaining portion of the Rahimpur Khal, linked with the Kusiyara River, to facilitate irrigation.

The BSF chief also responded positively when the BGB director general requested him to pursue with the appropriate Indian authorities regarding the laying of the optical fibre network to connect Dahagram through Tin Bigha corridor under the project ‘connected Bangladesh’.

To reduce the impact of the contaminated water carried from India by four canals in Akhaura area, both sides have agreed to conduct a joint survey and take necessary actions to prevent health hazards of the local people.

Both sides also agreed to expedite road connectivity.

Both sides agreed on remaining cautious and steadfast to stop smuggling through sharing of real time information and investigation reports of traffickers and remaining extra vigilant in line with the ‘Coordinated Border Management Plan’ in curbing the menace of smuggling of various types of drugs and narcotics, fire arms-ammunitions, explosives, gold, fake Indian currency note, and other contraband items.​

 

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BSF kills Bangladeshi youth in Naogaon border

The Indian Border Security Force killed a Bangladeshi youth in the bordering area in Naogoan district on early Tuesday...

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BSF kills Bangladeshi youth at Naogaon border
Staff Correspondent . Rajshahi | Published: 14:03, Mar 26,2024

The Indian Border Security Force killed a Bangladeshi youth in the bordering area in Naogoan district on early Tuesday.

The deceased is Al Amin, 32, son of Abu Bakkar of village Nitpur Colonypara under Porsha upazila in Naogaon.

Al Amin is the second victim of BSF border killing in the seventeen days since its top officials in Dhaka promise to bring down the number of shooting deaths or injuries to Bangladeshi civilians along their shared border to zero on March 9.

Enamul Haque, chairman of Nitpur Union Parishad, said that Al Amin used to bring cows from India as shepherds in exchange for money.

He said that Al Amin along with 10 to 12 others entered India by the side of the main pillar number 232 of the Nitpur border area to fetch cows on Monday night.

While they were returning with cows at 4:00am on Tuesday, BSF members from Agrabad Camp in Murshidabad district opened fire on them, leaving Al Amin dead on the spot.

Boarder Guard Bangladesh-16 battalion captain Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Sadiqur Rahman said that they heard that a Bangladeshi youth was killed in Milmari area in India, which is about two kilometers away from the Bangladesh border.

He said that they sent a letter to the BSF inviting a company commander-level flag meeting in this regard.

Earlier, the BSF killed a Bangladeshi teenage boy and injured at another bordering Moulvibazar village on March 17.

At least 20 Bangladeshi nationals, including a BGB member, were killed in the firing by the Indian BSF since June 2023, according to rights group ASK.​

 

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The BSF terrorists killed another Bangladeshi at the border on 26th March.

 

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These BSF b*stards have crossed their limits. The home ministry should give shoot at sight order to kill BSF goons.

India should have let Pakistan finish it's job in 71.

 

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Bangladeshi teenager shot dead by BSF along Lalmonirhat border

A Bangladeshi teenager was shot dead by members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Durgapur border in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat district on Tuesday night.The deceased was identified as Liton Mia, 19, son of Mokchedul Islam of Dighaltari area of Durgapur union of the upazila.Liton

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Bangladeshi teenager shot dead by BSF along Lalmonirhat border​

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Mar 27, 2024 21:09

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Mar 27, 2024 21:09

A Bangladeshi teenager was shot dead by members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Durgapur border in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat district on Tuesday night.

The deceased was identified as Liton Mia, 19, son of Mokchedul Islam of Dighaltari area of Durgapur union of the upazila.

Liton died around 11:00 pm while undergoing treatment at a hospital in India's Cooch Behar, said Lt. Col. Mofazzal Hossain Akand, captain of the 15th Battalion of the BGB in Lalmonirhat.

A flag meeting was held between the BGB and the BSF near main pillar number 923 of Durgapur border of the upazila at 11:30 am on Wednesday, he said.

The process of bringing back the body of the Bangladeshi is underway, added the officer.

Earlier, the BSF troops opened fire on a group of Bangladeshis while they were trying to bring cattle through the main pillar number 923 of the border area, leaving Yusuf seriously injured.

Later, the BSF personnel took him to MJN Medical College & Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.​

 

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India should have let Pakistan finish it's job in 71.

India didn't save us from Pakistan in 1971. We fought alone for 9 months(from 25th March to 3rd December) and the Indian army was nowhere to be seen until December 3rd when they moved in East Pakistan. It is the Indian army who saved the Pakistanis from Mukti bahini by sending the Pakistani prisoners of war to India. Learn the history first before you shoot off your mouth.

 

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India didn't save us from Pakistan in 1971. We fought alone for 9 months(from 25th March to 3rd December) and the Indian army was nowhere to be seen until December 3rd when they moved in East Pakistan. It is the Indian army who saved the Pakistanis from Mukti bahini by sending the Pakistani prisoners of war to India. Learn the history first before you shoot off your mouth.

Lmao, without BSF arming and training Mukti Bahini, it would not be able to do a thing, and would have been crushed, just like how Pakistan crushed the Sindh issue.

You should learn history first before lecturing me.

 

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Lmao, without BSF arming and training Mukti Bahini, it would not be able to do a thing, and would have been crushed, just like how Pakistan crushed the Sindh issue.

You should learn history first before lecturing me.

Don't talk rubbish! You mean to say a paramilitary force, BSF, armed and trained Mukti Bahini against one of the most professional armies in Asia( Pakistan army)? What sorts of training and weapons did BSF had at that time? Were they trained and armed like a professional army? BSF was a paramilitary force who were trained and armed to policing the border. They were not trained or armed like an army. So their training and weapons were not needed by the Mukti bahini. Never dare lecturing me about Bangladesh's history, Okay?

 

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Don't talk rubbish! You mean to say a paramilitary force, BSF, armed and trained Mukti Bahini against one of the most professional armies in Asia( Pakistan army)? What sorts of training and weapons did BSF had at that time? Were they trained and armed like a professional army? BSF was a paramilitary force who were trained and armed to policing the border. They were not trained or armed like an army. So their training and weapons were not needed by the Mukti bahini. Never dare lecturing me about Bangladesh's history, Okay?

Looks like the heavy madrasa education set up by the traitors who killed Mujib has deeply left you misinformed.

I would even say BSF is on par with the Pakistani Army, armed to fight them off till heavy reinforcements from the Army would arrive. Your lack of knowledge about BSF speaks volumes as you spread venom of this capable force.

BSF supplied weapons to Mukti Bahini, trained their cadres, crossed into East Pakistan, facilitated important meetings between Awami League and Indian Government leaders, blew up critical infrastructure to aid in your liberation.

If you think you liberated yourself, you are mistaken. Why did it take till India moved into the war that the Pakistanis left. Even the Americans wanted you dead.

If Mukti Bahini was left by itself, the Pakistanis would have crushed it, and continued it's rule of East Pakistan.

It is unfortunate that you have not been educated properly and have fallen for the propaganda of the old Pro-Pakistan Government of Bangladesh. You telling me to never dare lecture you about history speaks volumes of how you wish to remain in your echo chamber believing that your "truth" is the Supreme truth, away from anyone who would challenge you and your claims.

 

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Looks like the heavy madrasa education set up by the traitors who killed Mujib has deeply left you misinformed.

I would even say BSF is on par with the Pakistani Army, armed to fight them off till heavy reinforcements from the Army would arrive. Your lack of knowledge about BSF speaks volumes as you spread venom of this capable force.

BSF supplied weapons to Mukti Bahini, trained their cadres, crossed into East Pakistan, facilitated important meetings between Awami League and Indian Government leaders, blew up critical infrastructure to aid in your liberation.

If you think you liberated yourself, you are mistaken. Why did it take till India moved into the war that the Pakistanis left. Even the Americans wanted you dead.

If Mukti Bahini was left by itself, the Pakistanis would have crushed it, and continued it's rule of East Pakistan.

It is unfortunate that you have not been educated properly and have fallen for the propaganda of the old Pro-Pakistan Government of Bangladesh. You telling me to never dare lecture you about history speaks volumes of how you wish to remain in your echo chamber believing that your "truth" is the Supreme truth, away from anyone who would challenge you and your claims.

BSF is a paramilitary force and is not trained and armed to face a challenge from a professional army. It is you who need some education about BSF and its capability. Most of the training of Mukti Bahini was conducted by the East Bengal regiment while some training was conducted by the Indian army in Dehradun. The Indian army trained Mujib bahini who never took part in our liberation war. They were given responsibilities of crushing the Mizo rebels in Chittagong Hill Tracts and killing pro-chinese freedom fighters in Bangladesh. India moved in East Pakistan so late because they waited until the Mukti Bahini cornered the Pakistani army by blowing up important infrastructure and severing military supply line within East Pakistan. Another reason for the Indian army to move in East Pakistan so late because of Monsoon. Manekshaw rejected Indira Gandhis proposal to declare a war on Pakistan in April because in Monsoon the rivers in East Pakistan swell and flood the low lying land. Mukti bahini conducted a guerilla war against the Pakistani army but the Pakistani army was not trained to face such a non-conventional military tactic. This is the main reason for the success of Mukti Bahini against the Pakistani army. Had there was no Mukti Bahini, the Indian army would not dare to move into East Pakistan.

The Mukti Bahini's indomitable spirit is evident in the writings of Indian Lt Gen Jacob. "They achieved significant results in occupation of areas in the interior, demolitions and harassment of the enemy even before hostilities started. They completely demoralised the Pakistan Army, lowering their morale and creating such a hostile environment that their ability to operate was restricted and they were virtually confined to their fortified locations. The overall achievements of the Mukti Bahini and the East Bengal Regiments were enormous. Bangladesh can be proud of them. Their contribution was a crucial element in the operations prior to and during full-scale hostilities. Due credit must be given to their dedicated efforts to achieve the independence of their country," Jacob wrote in his book Surrender at Dacca: Birth of a Nation (Pg 94).

You need some serious history lesson before arguing with me. Have a nice rest of the day.

 

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BSF is a paramilitary force and is not trained and armed to face a challenge from a professional army. It is you who need some education about BSF and its capability. Most of the training of Mukti Bahini was conducted by the East Bengal regiment while some training was conducted by the Indian army in Dehradun. The Indian army trained Mujib bahini who never took part in our liberation war. They were given responsibilities of crushing the Mizo rebels in Chittagong Hill Tracts and killing pro-chinese freedom fighters in Bangladesh. India moved in East Pakistan so late because they waited until the Mukti Bahini cornered the Pakistani army by blowing up important infrastructure and severing military supply line within East Pakistan. Another reason for the Indian army to move in East Pakistan so late because of Monsoon. Manekshaw rejected Indira Gandhis proposal to declare a war on Pakistan in April because in Monsoon the rivers in East Pakistan swell and flood the low lying land. Mukti bahini conducted a guerilla war against the Pakistani army but the Pakistani army was not trained to face such a non-conventional military tactic. This is the main reason for the success of Mukti Bahini against the Pakistani army. Had there was no Mukti Bahini, the Indian army would not dare to move into East Pakistan.

The Mukti Bahini's indomitable spirit is evident in the writings of Indian Lt Gen Jacob. "They achieved significant results in occupation of areas in the interior, demolitions and harassment of the enemy even before hostilities started. They completely demoralised the Pakistan Army, lowering their morale and creating such a hostile environment that their ability to operate was restricted and they were virtually confined to their fortified locations. The overall achievements of the Mukti Bahini and the East Bengal Regiments were enormous. Bangladesh can be proud of them. Their contribution was a crucial element in the operations prior to and during full-scale hostilities. Due credit must be given to their dedicated efforts to achieve the independence of their country," Jacob wrote in his book Surrender at Dacca: Birth of a Nation (Pg 94).

You need some serious history lesson before arguing with me. Have a nice rest of the day.

You are getting ridiculous by just pointing at the fact that BSF is a paramilitary force. You are forgetting that this was the period a large number of Army regulars were a part of BSF. You are the one who is unable to swallow the fact that BSF has done alot for Bangladesh during the war, given your obsession of putting it down for the sake of your own circlejerk.

If there was no Mukti Bahini and Refugees moving to India, why would India care about Pakistanis killing Pakistanis? 3 million were killed when India intervened, more would have died without India.

Your point of Monsoon being brought up here cannot be comprehended as that was militarily sound, and cannot be used as an argument here.

The Indian Army only trained some, as BSF did the heavy lifting, the same force which you hate just because some Bangladeshis crossed the border illegally.

Without India's intervention, despite how much of a good job Mukti Bahini performed in punishing the Pakistanis, Searchlight would have been easily converted to another similar operation, given the likelihood of their assets in the West being freed.

Pulling up Lt Gen Jacob's writing is an effective way of using different information to obscure the main fact of the matter.

India (via BSF) armed and aided Mukti Bahini to ensure it was an effective fighting force. Yes, the regiment did good, but without outside support, it would not be as effective as it would be.

You need to let go off your hatred to even effectively argue.