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BGB-BSF DG-level border conference begins in Dhaka
A five-day director general (DG)-level border conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) began in Dhaka today
BGB-BSF DG-level border conference begins in Dhaka
A five-day director general (DG)-level border conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) began in Dhaka today.
The conference is being held at the conference room of Pilkhana BGB headquarters in the capital.
A 16-member delegation led by BGB DG Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui took part in the conference.
Apart from BGB high officials, representatives from the Prime Minister's Office, Home Ministry, Foreign Ministry and officials of the joint river commission were present there.
On the other hand, a nine-member delegation led by BSF DG Nitin Agrawal joined the conference with the presence of high officials of BSF, Indian Home and Foreign Ministry officials and officials of Indian High Commission.
The meeting discussed security-related issues like border killing; drugs, arms, ammunition, women, and children trafficking, illegal trespassing, conservation of the banks of the rivers along the bordering areas, joint efforts to implement Coordinated Border Management Plan (CBMP), development of the bi-lateral relation between the two countries and development work within 150 yards of the international border.
Earlier, a nine member delegation led by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) Director General (DG) Nitin Agrawal arrived in the city. Smita Agrawal, wife of the BSF head, is accompanying him during his visit to Bangladesh.
BGB DG Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui and his spouse Nawrin Ashraf welcomed the BSF delegation with flowers upon their arrival at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the morning.
Later, the Indian delegation was taken to the BGB headquarters where the BSF chief paid respect to the BGB members who sacrificed their lives during the country's liberation war in 1971.
Moreover, another delegation of 'BSF Wives Welfare Association' also came to the country at the invitation of the BGB Shimanto Paribar Kalyan Samity (SHIPKS) Chief Patron Nawrin Ashraf.
The delegates of the Indian welfare association are scheduled to attend several events hosted by the SHIPKS and Shimanto Ladies Club.
The conference will end through the signing of Joint Record of Discussions (JRD) on March 9.
The BSF delegation will return to India on March 9 wrapping up the five day DG level border conference.
Apart from BGB high officials, representatives from the Prime Minister's Office, Home Ministry, Foreign Ministry and officials of the joint river commission were present there.
On the other hand, a nine-member delegation led by BSF DG Nitin Agrawal joined the conference with the presence of high officials of BSF, Indian Home and Foreign Ministry officials and officials of Indian High Commission.
The meeting discussed security-related issues like border killing; drugs, arms, ammunition, women, and children trafficking, illegal trespassing, conservation of the banks of the rivers along the bordering areas, joint efforts to implement Coordinated Border Management Plan (CBMP), development of the bi-lateral relation between the two countries and development work within 150 yards of the international border.
Earlier, a nine member delegation led by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) Director General (DG) Nitin Agrawal arrived in the city. Smita Agrawal, wife of the BSF head, is accompanying him during his visit to Bangladesh.
BGB DG Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui and his spouse Nawrin Ashraf welcomed the BSF delegation with flowers upon their arrival at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the morning.
Later, the Indian delegation was taken to the BGB headquarters where the BSF chief paid respect to the BGB members who sacrificed their lives during the country's liberation war in 1971.
Moreover, another delegation of 'BSF Wives Welfare Association' also came to the country at the invitation of the BGB Shimanto Paribar Kalyan Samity (SHIPKS) Chief Patron Nawrin Ashraf.
The delegates of the Indian welfare association are scheduled to attend several events hosted by the SHIPKS and Shimanto Ladies Club.
The conference will end through the signing of Joint Record of Discussions (JRD) on March 9.
The BSF delegation will return to India on March 9 wrapping up the five day DG level border conference.
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Another talk-shop, with little in the way of actionable decisions. We are welcoming the killers of Felani with open arms.
Remember this?
www.newagebd.net
Promises, promises.
Now they are making this a cross-border saree and lehenga shopping extravaganza in both countries, with wives involved.
Where is the serious discussion to resolve pending issues? Meanwhile Felanis keep dying on the fences.
Pathetic.
Remember this?
BSF agrees afresh to zero border killing
Border Guard Bangladesh authorities disclosed on Thursday that the Indian Border Security Force chief Sujoy Lal Thaosen had assured of bringing the border killing to zero during the recent bilateral talks...
www.newagebd.net
Promises, promises.
Now they are making this a cross-border saree and lehenga shopping extravaganza in both countries, with wives involved.
Where is the serious discussion to resolve pending issues? Meanwhile Felanis keep dying on the fences.
Pathetic.
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Here is another recent Op-Ed piece in one of the local Dhaka rags...
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DOZENS of conferences, talks between directors general of border forces of India and Bangladesh and bilateral pledges appear to have yielded no result in ending killing of Bangladeshis by India’s Border Security Force along the border.
The issue has always been one of the top priorities at discussions by Dhaka. The Indian guards and the political leaders have on many occasions promised to end border killing, but the Border Security Force has continued to use lethal weapons and kill and torture Bangladeshis.
In the latest incident, the Indian guards shot dead a Border Guard Bangladesh soldier on January 22 along the Benapole border in Jashore while at least 20 Bangladeshis were killed by the Indian guards in seven months.
In 2023, 30 Bangladeshis were, according to Ain o Salish Kendra, killed by the Indian guards. In such a situation, the 54th director-general talks between the Bangladesh and Indian forces began on March 5 in Dhaka. Presumably, Dhaka would once again request that the Indians to follow the zero-border killing policy and the Indians would presumably once again dish out the rhetoric that it would follow the policy.
It is not that the Indian guards have killed ‘criminals’ engaged in crimes on the border. In many instances, Indian guards are reported to have tortured and killed Bangladeshis, mostly farmers working on fields, well inside the Bangladesh territory.
Examples of such intrusion, which is a gross violation of the international laws and the many agreements between the two neighboring countries, abound. Besides, the Indian guards have continued to show a trigger-happy attitude in dealing with cattle smugglers or petty criminals.
It is understood that cross-border smuggling involves people from both sides of the border and although there are agreements that such people will be dealt with in accordance with the laws and lethal weapons will not be used, the Indian guards continue to pursue a shoot-to-kill policy, dishonoring the agreements and memorandums.
While the political leaders of the two countries never fail to glorify the friendly bilateral relations, India’s border violence, which has reached such a proportion that many international media and rights organizations have termed the Bangladesh-India border as the ‘deadliest’, has negatively affected people-to-people relations. At least 1,236 Bangladeshis were killed and 1,145 injured in Indian guard fire between 2000 and 2020, as rights organization Odhikar says.
An end to border killing and a peaceful border could have been achieved if justice had been ensured in earlier incidents of border killing. But sadly, India has never brought any of those accused of being high-handed to justice.
Dhaka must, therefore, push for an immediate implementation of a zero-border killing policy and demand investigation of all incidents of torture and killings.
Dhaka must also take up the border killing issue at international forums as it is a violation of the international laws. Indian authorities must deliver on their promises and ensure that their border force abides by the laws and border protocols.
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India’s pledge to end border killing must not remain rhetorical
Published: 00:00, Mar 06,2024
DOZENS of conferences, talks between directors general of border forces of India and Bangladesh and bilateral pledges appear to have yielded no result in ending killing of Bangladeshis by India’s Border Security Force along the border.
The issue has always been one of the top priorities at discussions by Dhaka. The Indian guards and the political leaders have on many occasions promised to end border killing, but the Border Security Force has continued to use lethal weapons and kill and torture Bangladeshis.
In the latest incident, the Indian guards shot dead a Border Guard Bangladesh soldier on January 22 along the Benapole border in Jashore while at least 20 Bangladeshis were killed by the Indian guards in seven months.
In 2023, 30 Bangladeshis were, according to Ain o Salish Kendra, killed by the Indian guards. In such a situation, the 54th director-general talks between the Bangladesh and Indian forces began on March 5 in Dhaka. Presumably, Dhaka would once again request that the Indians to follow the zero-border killing policy and the Indians would presumably once again dish out the rhetoric that it would follow the policy.
It is not that the Indian guards have killed ‘criminals’ engaged in crimes on the border. In many instances, Indian guards are reported to have tortured and killed Bangladeshis, mostly farmers working on fields, well inside the Bangladesh territory.
Examples of such intrusion, which is a gross violation of the international laws and the many agreements between the two neighboring countries, abound. Besides, the Indian guards have continued to show a trigger-happy attitude in dealing with cattle smugglers or petty criminals.
It is understood that cross-border smuggling involves people from both sides of the border and although there are agreements that such people will be dealt with in accordance with the laws and lethal weapons will not be used, the Indian guards continue to pursue a shoot-to-kill policy, dishonoring the agreements and memorandums.
While the political leaders of the two countries never fail to glorify the friendly bilateral relations, India’s border violence, which has reached such a proportion that many international media and rights organizations have termed the Bangladesh-India border as the ‘deadliest’, has negatively affected people-to-people relations. At least 1,236 Bangladeshis were killed and 1,145 injured in Indian guard fire between 2000 and 2020, as rights organization Odhikar says.
An end to border killing and a peaceful border could have been achieved if justice had been ensured in earlier incidents of border killing. But sadly, India has never brought any of those accused of being high-handed to justice.
Dhaka must, therefore, push for an immediate implementation of a zero-border killing policy and demand investigation of all incidents of torture and killings.
Dhaka must also take up the border killing issue at international forums as it is a violation of the international laws. Indian authorities must deliver on their promises and ensure that their border force abides by the laws and border protocols.
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BGB has been turned into a poodle of Indian BSF. Bangladesh's current regime is the extended tail of India. They have sold out Bangladesh to India for their petty political interests.
