Atrocities of BSF/How BGB responds

[Cryptonian]

@Sharma Ji check out the thrashing received by fence jumpers. Some of them are BD security personnel, with kidnapping equipments.

@Suresh Naresh @Lulldapull , check out India's Mexico. What treatment should they receive.

 

[Saif]

Two BSF members are asking for forgiveness by holding the feet of BGB members. Scene like this gives me great delight

 

[Cryptonian]

@Lulldapull @Sharma Ji
Look at this swamp creature trying to jump fence. He is caught by BSF yet not coming out of under carriage. Should we shoot them ?

 

[Saif]

BGB to discuss security concerns over allowing arms to indigenous people

The Border Guard Bangladesh, during the upcoming director general level conference with its Indian counterpart, will raise the issue of possible security risks along Bangladesh’s borders with the Indian state of Assam over allowing arms to the indigenous people...

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BGB-BSF CONFERENCE
BGB to discuss security concerns over allowing arms to indigenous people
Tanzil Rahaman 15 August, 2025, 00:28

The Border Guard Bangladesh, during the upcoming director general level conference with its Indian counterpart, will raise the issue of possible security risks along Bangladesh’s borders with the Indian state of Assam over allowing arms to the indigenous people.

The BGB said that they will raise the concern in the conference, as the move might increase the use of arms or cause incidents of unwanted or intentional killings along the borders.

Besides other issues, the issue of allowing Khasiya people to use firearms will be discussed with importance during the forthcoming 56th BGB-BSF director general-level conference between August 25 and August 28 at the BGB headquarters in Dhaka.

BGB director for operations Lieutenant Colonel SM Shafiqur Rahman made the remarks, responding to a New Age query over security experts’ fear of increasing the possibility of volatile situation, including border killings over the Assam state government’s decision to allow arms for the inhabitants and indigenous people living near the Bangladesh border and where Bangladeshi origin Mulisms are the majority.

‘BGB is aware of such risks and its continuous effort is going on regularly to make bordering people aware and encourage them to ensure peace and discipline,’ he added.

On May 29, the Assam cabinet approved the special scheme to provide arms licenses to its original inhabitants and indigenous citizens living in the remote areas along the Bangladesh border.

In a recent development on August 6, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that his government was setting up a portal where indigenous people living in ‘sensitive areas’ could apply for arms licences, according to several Indian media outlets’ reports.

Security experts in Bangladesh said that the Assam state government’s move would instigate violence along the border when border killings and push-ins by India were continuing.

According to rights organisation Ain o Salish Kendra data, at least 34 Bangladeshis were killed by the BSF in the first year of the interim government.

According to the reports published in New Age, India pushed 2,125 people, including 173 Rohingyas and Indian nationals, into Bangladesh since May 7 this year.

The state government of Assam has taken the move when a lot of cross-border tensions are prevailing following the August 5, 2024 political changeover in Bangladesh.

In the four-day BGB-BSF DG level conference, different cross-border crime issues, including border killings, push-ins, and illegal intrusion, and smuggling of drugs, arms, ammunition and others from India, are likely to be discussed.

The other issues would include implementing development activities within 150 yards of the international border, water sharing, and the protection of embankments on transboundary rivers.

Besides, joint initiatives to implement a coordinated border management plan, reduce border tensions over recent anti-Bangladesh propaganda by the Indian media outlets, and bilateral issues, among others, would also feature in the discussion.

Expressing concern over the killing of Bangladeshis along the Indian border in the 55th DG-level conference of the two border forces in February 17–20 in New Delhi, BGB DG Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui urged his counterpart Daljit Singh Chawdhary to bring the border killing to zero, according to the BGB-BSF joint press statement.

The tensions involve push-ins, constructing barbed wire fences within 150 yards of the border, violating the international border laws, incidents of crude bomb explosions, firing sound grenades, flying drones, and opening fire along the Bangladesh-India border by the Border Security Force of India.​

 

[Saif]

Time for Dhaka to boldly take up India’s border ploys with Delhi

DELHI’S border ploys, which have been evident in the murder of Bangladeshis at the hand of India’s Border Security Force that have continued apace for years, appear to be taking an added dimension. Whilst a series of events of erecting barbed-wire and electric fences along the frontiers began...

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Time for Dhaka to boldly take up India’s border ploys with Delhi
15 August, 2025, 00:00

DELHI’S border ploys, which have been evident in the murder of Bangladeshis at the hand of India’s Border Security Force that have continued apace for years, appear to be taking an added dimension. Whilst a series of events of erecting barbed-wire and electric fences along the frontiers began with the direct involvement of Indian border guards in the final days of December 2024, which have already discommoded Bangladesh at a time when it is in a transitional phase after the fall of the Awam League regime, Indian guards have started pushing people into Bangladesh beginning this May. Whilst many of India’s attempts at fence erection have been foiled, India has pushed in 2,112 people, who included Rohingyas and at least 50 of whom are registered with the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India and Indians, since May 7. The latest wave of push-in of 40 people took place along border points of Panchagarh, Lalmonirhat and Thakurgaon on August 13. Now, the Indian state of Assam is reported to have decided to provide Indian civilians living near the border with firearm licenses.

The move of the Assam government, which Indian newspapers have reported, has raised concern for people living in the Bangladesh territory along the frontiers. The Assam government on May 29 approved the special scheme to provide its citizens living in remote areas bordering Bangladesh and at places in India where the Muslims are the majority inside Bangladesh. Assam’s chief minister on August 6 said that his government was setting up a portal for indigenous people living in ‘sensitive areas’ in India to apply for firearm licenses. Security experts in Bangladesh say that Assam’s move would instigate violence along the border, especially when border killing and push-in have continued. Security experts believe that the Assam government has taken the move to create disturbance for neighboring Bangladesh and to expose Bangladeshis in bordering areas to threats. They believe that the Khasiyas, given firearms, in India would get into conflicts with Bangladeshis where the presence of Indian border guards and security forces is thin. A former chief of the Bangladesh border force says that the decision of the Assam government would add to death of Bangladeshis in the border and it would create further tension, noting that Indian border guards discuss the issue of providing Indians in bordering areas with firearms with the Bangladesh guards.

The 56th conference between the directors general of border guards of both the countries is set to take place in Dhaka in August 25–28. Dhaka should be bold enough in taking up the whole gamut of issues with Delhi on the occasion and outside the event.​