Unb, Satkhira
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) killed a Bangladeshi youth near Hardona border on Thursday night.
Locals said the Indian border guards of Soldana camp ran a speedboat over Amir Hossain, 25, while he was crossing the Ichhamoti River with cattle, leaving him seriously injured.
Bangladeshi fishermen rescued Amir in a critical condition. He was first admitted to Satkhira Sadar Hospital and later shifted to the Khulna 250-bed Hospital where he died yesterday afternoon.
BDR (Bangladesh Rifles) confirmed the incident.
UNB Thakurgaon correspondent reported that the BSF fired gunshots at Haripur frontier on Thursday night, creating panic among the residents at Dangaon and Dahagaon villages.
BDR sources said the BSF troops of Khurka camp fired on Dangaon village from near pillar no 358 at about 9:00pm.
BSF members of Borra camp also fired on Dahagaon village at about 11:00pm on Wednesday night.
The company commander at Haripur BDR camp said the BSF opened fire without any provocation, but BDR did not retaliate.
Sunday, 1 October 2006
Sunday, 16 July 2006
BSF kills 1
Unb, Naogaon
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) gunned down a Bangladeshi national on Bamonpara border under Sapahar upazila yesterday.
The victim was identified as Tozammel Haq Kalu, 48, a cattle trader.
Locals said the Indian border guards of Naiorkori outpost opened fire when Kalu along with eight others was going to Bamonpara border from Sapahar in the morning.
Kalu received bullets and died instantly. The BSF men then took away the body.
Immediately after killing, BDR protested the incident and asked its Indian counterpart to return the body. But the BSF personnel of Naiorkuri outpost resorted to unprovoked fire at Bamonpara outpost of BDR in the afternoon, forcing the Bangladesh border guards to retaliate.
BDR and BSF have declared red alert along the 179-km border of the district and mobilised additional troops and artillery.
Local BDR Commander Lt Col Zahid Hasan confirmed the incident. He said they are ready to face any eventuality.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) gunned down a Bangladeshi national on Bamonpara border under Sapahar upazila yesterday.
The victim was identified as Tozammel Haq Kalu, 48, a cattle trader.
Locals said the Indian border guards of Naiorkori outpost opened fire when Kalu along with eight others was going to Bamonpara border from Sapahar in the morning.
Kalu received bullets and died instantly. The BSF men then took away the body.
Immediately after killing, BDR protested the incident and asked its Indian counterpart to return the body. But the BSF personnel of Naiorkuri outpost resorted to unprovoked fire at Bamonpara outpost of BDR in the afternoon, forcing the Bangladesh border guards to retaliate.
BDR and BSF have declared red alert along the 179-km border of the district and mobilised additional troops and artillery.
Local BDR Commander Lt Col Zahid Hasan confirmed the incident. He said they are ready to face any eventuality.
Saturday, 25 March 2006
BSF kills 1
Bdnews, Chapainawabganj
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday shot a Bangladeshi dead at Durlavpur union of Shibganj upazila.
The victim was identified as Shahidul (20), son of Abdul Malek. He hails from Charpaka village.
Commander-in-charge of the 6 Rifle Battalion Major Alauddin said Shahidul died as the BSF members of the Thakurbari camp in India opened fire on him when he was working in the field adjacent to pillar no 13 of the border.
Later, BSF members took his body into the Indian territory.
The BDR, however, said the BSF members assured of handing over the body at 10:00am Friday following a protest letter from the BDR.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday shot a Bangladeshi dead at Durlavpur union of Shibganj upazila.
The victim was identified as Shahidul (20), son of Abdul Malek. He hails from Charpaka village.
Commander-in-charge of the 6 Rifle Battalion Major Alauddin said Shahidul died as the BSF members of the Thakurbari camp in India opened fire on him when he was working in the field adjacent to pillar no 13 of the border.
Later, BSF members took his body into the Indian territory.
The BDR, however, said the BSF members assured of handing over the body at 10:00am Friday following a protest letter from the BDR.
Monday, 25 April 2005
Border tension flares as BSF kills 2 more
Takes away the bodies; India denies troops build-up along Akhaura border
Staff Correspondent
Only three days into striking an accord to exercise maximum restraint at border, Indian Border Security Force (BSF) without any reported provocation yesterday shot down two Bangladeshi citizens on the no man's land in Moheshpur upazila of Jhenidah district.
The Indian border guards also took away the bodies of Jahidul Islam, 24, son of Delwar Hossain of Jadavpur village, and Aktar Hossain, 30, son of Solaiman of Barabari village of the upazila, Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) sources said.
Earlier, on Friday night, a BSF team entered Tarapur village in Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria district causing panic among the villagers.
The latest shooting stoked up once again the Indo-Bangladesh border tension brewing since April 16 skirmishes at Akhaura that had simmered down to some extent last Wednesday, following negotiations between Dhaka and New Delhi at diplomatic and other planes. Border guards of both the countries have been blaming each other for opening fire first and thus triggering the shootout that left a 10-year-old Bangladeshi girl and a BSF assistant commandant dead.
With yesterday's killings, 387 Bangladeshis have been killed by BSF in the last five and a half years, according to the statistics compiled by Odhikar, a rights watchdog of Bangladesh. Besides, the Odhikar report said, 1,863 persons have suffered human rights violations by Indian miscreants in the period at north and southwestern borders.
"With continued infiltration into Bangladesh territory and killings, abductions and tortures by BSF personnel, the Indo-Bangla border has turned into a human disaster," remarked Odhikar.
Earlier, on Friday night, a BSF team entered Tarapur village in Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria district causing panic among the villagers.
MOHESHPUR KILLING
A BSF team based at Haripur opened fire on the two Bangladeshi villagers early yesterday when they went on the no man's land to send a message to their relatives across the border, sources at 9 BDR Battalion said quoting the victims' families.
They were killed near pillar number 49 on the no man's land about half a kilometre off Gopalpur border observation post (BOP) of BDR, sources said. The bodies had been lying near the border pillar for a long time, they said, adding BSF troops later dragged them into Indian territory.
The incident triggered off widespread panic among the people living in the bordering areas of the southwestern district.
BDR yesterday sent a letter to the BSF high command strongly protesting against the killings of two innocent Bangladeshis without any provocation, UNB quoted the commanding officer of Jessore-based 25 BDR Battalion, Lt Col Motahar Hasan, as saying.
Hasan said the letter also urged BSF to return the bodies and proposed a flag meeting to BSF.
BDR asked the people living in frontier areas to move carefully and not to go near the zero line, he added.
BSF VERSION
Talking to BBC Radio last night BSF officials in Kolkata admitted that two Bangladeshi youths were killed early yesterday in firing by BSF personnel.
According to their narration, a group of five to six Bangladeshis tried to enter North 24 Pargana of West Bengal through Madhupur border at 3:00am. The BSF personnel asked them to retreat, but the miscreants pelted brickbats at the BSF troops. The BSF men then fired four rounds and killed two Bangladeshis.
The BSF officials also admitted to having two bodies at their possession. The bodies would be sent for autopsy and every thing would be done according to the law, a BSF official told BBC.
BSF INTRUDES INTO B'BARIA
UNB reports: Some 25 BSF men intruded 200 yards into Tarapur village in Kasba upazila at about 11:00pm Friday night.
Villagers said apprehending trouble they raised alarming cries and started running in panic. Hearing them, a BDR patrol party came quickly but refrained from firing at the trespassers and allowed them return to their territory.
The villagers termed the BSF action provocative, intended to escalate the border trouble.
An earlier report said BDR-BSF flag meeting at Akhaura border on Thursday night ended in a fiasco. The meeting broke at 8:30pm on information of BSF firing at Singerbeel border that left three people of Nalgoria village injured.
Sources close to the meeting said the BSF side was stubborn, even unwilling to accept Indian press reports that they had trespassed into Bangladesh territory on April 16 triggering the gunfight.
BSF also rejected a BDR proposal for joint inquiry into the April 16 incident, the sources added.
INDIA DENIES EXTRA TROOPS
Meanwhile, the ministry of home affairs of India denied Bangladesh press reports on its deploying additional troops along the Akhaura border.
The additional director general (East) of BSF under the ministry in a letter to the Indian high commission in Dhaka on Friday said, "no additional deployment of BSF or deployment of Army has been made on Indian side as has been reported in Bangladesh Newspapers."
The letter then narrated another shooting at border on Thursday night, "Fact of the case is as under: On 21/04-05 at about 1945 hrs (IST) BOP Bhagalpur (Tripura) observed 7-8 Bangladeshi miscreants attempting to breach fence. The miscreants were challenged and directed to surrender. But they did not pay any heed. Instead they started pelting stones and other missiles including Dah towards BSF party. Sensing imminent danger to their life, the BSF party fired only 3 rds in a professional and restrained manner to thwart attempt of fence breaching. Miscreants fled away to Bangladesh."
"BSF, individually or in group, did not enter into Bangladesh territory. Report 'a group of BSF of India entered 400 yards inside of Bangladesh territory is malicious and mischievous with evil design," the letter claimed at the end.
JYOTI BASU FOR DIALOGUE
Against the backdrop of the recent border skirmishes, veteran CPI (M) leader and former chief minister of West Bengal Jyoti Basu said India should immediately initiate dialogue with Dhaka to resolve the bilateral issues.
"We want friendship with Bangladesh, but there are some problems. The UPA government is also concerned," Basu told reporters in Kolkata last Friday responding to the question whether India should start a peace process with Bangladesh similar to that with Pakistan, reported daily the Hindu.
"Reports also say that Indian insurgent groups are taking shelter in that country. So, dialogue should begin immediately to resolve these problems," Basu remarked.
Staff Correspondent
Only three days into striking an accord to exercise maximum restraint at border, Indian Border Security Force (BSF) without any reported provocation yesterday shot down two Bangladeshi citizens on the no man's land in Moheshpur upazila of Jhenidah district.
The Indian border guards also took away the bodies of Jahidul Islam, 24, son of Delwar Hossain of Jadavpur village, and Aktar Hossain, 30, son of Solaiman of Barabari village of the upazila, Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) sources said.
Earlier, on Friday night, a BSF team entered Tarapur village in Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria district causing panic among the villagers.
The latest shooting stoked up once again the Indo-Bangladesh border tension brewing since April 16 skirmishes at Akhaura that had simmered down to some extent last Wednesday, following negotiations between Dhaka and New Delhi at diplomatic and other planes. Border guards of both the countries have been blaming each other for opening fire first and thus triggering the shootout that left a 10-year-old Bangladeshi girl and a BSF assistant commandant dead.
With yesterday's killings, 387 Bangladeshis have been killed by BSF in the last five and a half years, according to the statistics compiled by Odhikar, a rights watchdog of Bangladesh. Besides, the Odhikar report said, 1,863 persons have suffered human rights violations by Indian miscreants in the period at north and southwestern borders.
"With continued infiltration into Bangladesh territory and killings, abductions and tortures by BSF personnel, the Indo-Bangla border has turned into a human disaster," remarked Odhikar.
Earlier, on Friday night, a BSF team entered Tarapur village in Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria district causing panic among the villagers.
MOHESHPUR KILLING
A BSF team based at Haripur opened fire on the two Bangladeshi villagers early yesterday when they went on the no man's land to send a message to their relatives across the border, sources at 9 BDR Battalion said quoting the victims' families.
They were killed near pillar number 49 on the no man's land about half a kilometre off Gopalpur border observation post (BOP) of BDR, sources said. The bodies had been lying near the border pillar for a long time, they said, adding BSF troops later dragged them into Indian territory.
The incident triggered off widespread panic among the people living in the bordering areas of the southwestern district.
BDR yesterday sent a letter to the BSF high command strongly protesting against the killings of two innocent Bangladeshis without any provocation, UNB quoted the commanding officer of Jessore-based 25 BDR Battalion, Lt Col Motahar Hasan, as saying.
Hasan said the letter also urged BSF to return the bodies and proposed a flag meeting to BSF.
BDR asked the people living in frontier areas to move carefully and not to go near the zero line, he added.
BSF VERSION
Talking to BBC Radio last night BSF officials in Kolkata admitted that two Bangladeshi youths were killed early yesterday in firing by BSF personnel.
According to their narration, a group of five to six Bangladeshis tried to enter North 24 Pargana of West Bengal through Madhupur border at 3:00am. The BSF personnel asked them to retreat, but the miscreants pelted brickbats at the BSF troops. The BSF men then fired four rounds and killed two Bangladeshis.
The BSF officials also admitted to having two bodies at their possession. The bodies would be sent for autopsy and every thing would be done according to the law, a BSF official told BBC.
BSF INTRUDES INTO B'BARIA
UNB reports: Some 25 BSF men intruded 200 yards into Tarapur village in Kasba upazila at about 11:00pm Friday night.
Villagers said apprehending trouble they raised alarming cries and started running in panic. Hearing them, a BDR patrol party came quickly but refrained from firing at the trespassers and allowed them return to their territory.
The villagers termed the BSF action provocative, intended to escalate the border trouble.
An earlier report said BDR-BSF flag meeting at Akhaura border on Thursday night ended in a fiasco. The meeting broke at 8:30pm on information of BSF firing at Singerbeel border that left three people of Nalgoria village injured.
Sources close to the meeting said the BSF side was stubborn, even unwilling to accept Indian press reports that they had trespassed into Bangladesh territory on April 16 triggering the gunfight.
BSF also rejected a BDR proposal for joint inquiry into the April 16 incident, the sources added.
INDIA DENIES EXTRA TROOPS
Meanwhile, the ministry of home affairs of India denied Bangladesh press reports on its deploying additional troops along the Akhaura border.
The additional director general (East) of BSF under the ministry in a letter to the Indian high commission in Dhaka on Friday said, "no additional deployment of BSF or deployment of Army has been made on Indian side as has been reported in Bangladesh Newspapers."
The letter then narrated another shooting at border on Thursday night, "Fact of the case is as under: On 21/04-05 at about 1945 hrs (IST) BOP Bhagalpur (Tripura) observed 7-8 Bangladeshi miscreants attempting to breach fence. The miscreants were challenged and directed to surrender. But they did not pay any heed. Instead they started pelting stones and other missiles including Dah towards BSF party. Sensing imminent danger to their life, the BSF party fired only 3 rds in a professional and restrained manner to thwart attempt of fence breaching. Miscreants fled away to Bangladesh."
"BSF, individually or in group, did not enter into Bangladesh territory. Report 'a group of BSF of India entered 400 yards inside of Bangladesh territory is malicious and mischievous with evil design," the letter claimed at the end.
JYOTI BASU FOR DIALOGUE
Against the backdrop of the recent border skirmishes, veteran CPI (M) leader and former chief minister of West Bengal Jyoti Basu said India should immediately initiate dialogue with Dhaka to resolve the bilateral issues.
"We want friendship with Bangladesh, but there are some problems. The UPA government is also concerned," Basu told reporters in Kolkata last Friday responding to the question whether India should start a peace process with Bangladesh similar to that with Pakistan, reported daily the Hindu.
"Reports also say that Indian insurgent groups are taking shelter in that country. So, dialogue should begin immediately to resolve these problems," Basu remarked.
Thursday, 3 March 2005
BSF kills one in Naogaon
BDNEWS, Naogaon
The Border Security Force (BSF) shot dead a Bangladeshi youth at about 8:00pm yesterday on Agradigun border under Dhamuirhat upazila in Naogaon district.
BSF members fired at the Bangladeshi youth Babu Mia (35) as he tried to intrude into Indian territory cutting a barbed wire fence.
Babu was suspected to be a phensydil trader. His accomplice Sadeq Ali (33) managed to escape from the spot.
A flag meeting between BDR and BSF was held in this regard and BSF agreed to hand over the body of Babu to Bangladesh authorities after autopsy.
The Border Security Force (BSF) shot dead a Bangladeshi youth at about 8:00pm yesterday on Agradigun border under Dhamuirhat upazila in Naogaon district.
BSF members fired at the Bangladeshi youth Babu Mia (35) as he tried to intrude into Indian territory cutting a barbed wire fence.
Babu was suspected to be a phensydil trader. His accomplice Sadeq Ali (33) managed to escape from the spot.
A flag meeting between BDR and BSF was held in this regard and BSF agreed to hand over the body of Babu to Bangladesh authorities after autopsy.
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