2001 Indian?Bangladeshi border conflict - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wiki has completely different numbers. Don't say that it's wiki therefore its not credible, most articles are cited well.
I have read the wiki version, but wiki will always say the official version. What is your idea about incursion by Indian Army troops into 1 km inside our land to take over our Border Outpost at the middle of night? Will you go to an enemy land at night with only 16 soldiers? Wiki even does not know that ROUMARY and PADUA are in two different points separated by many kms.
Many Indian newspapers also have vague knowledge about the locations of these two places and the events that killed 97 IA troops. Roumary was first re-taken over by our BDR, because it is our land. IA troops decided to avenge the matter by taking over Padua, a weak point guarded by only 13 BDR troops.
They came with 400 troops and another 400 were waiting just outside the border. BDR troops were taking rest or sleeping, this is what you do at nights. It was paddy planting season and a 12 year boy was in the rice field to check the depth of irrigation water in his field when he noticed a large number of shadows in the far.
Being a border boy, he knew instantly that an Indian attack was going to take place. He ran under the shadows of trees to his house and inform the elders, who rushed to the BoP.
The Officer there after discussion with his subordinates decided to accept the challenge and die to protect motherland. They took their positions in a large area without concentrating at one single point. When the IA troops came within the firing range of about 60 meter they opened fire.
In the consequent fighting 97 IA troops along with their Commander, a Major, were killed. But, the politicians from both the countries decided not to divulge the real number for fear of escalation of sentiment at both sides of the border.
Simply, there was no chance for the IA troops inside 1km into our wet land under 6 inches of irrigation water. There was no way thery could have run away in such a slippery land. It is not a source of our pride when human lives, Indians or BD, are lost. But, for BD the matter of pride is that the BDR troops had faced the larger IA troops fully knowing that all of them were going to be killed by the IA bullets..