10 hurt as Indians fire into Bangladesh
Villagers vandalise outpost for BDR role, block road
Zaman Monir . Sylhet
At least 10 Bangladeshis, including a minor boy, were injured as Indias Khasia tribesmen on Sunday afternoon fired into Bangladesh at Shreepur in the Jaintapur border of Sylhet.
Villagers also vandalised the Shreepur BDR outpost and the Minartila checkpoint as the Bangladesh Rifles soldiers tried stop the villages from building up resistance against the Indians.
The villagers also blocked the SylhetTamabil Road at Shreepur for two hours beginning 2:00pm in protest at the unresponsive role of the Bangladesh border guards after the Indians had fired into Bangladesh, local sources said.
Indian Khasia tribesmen have been tilling cropland about 200m inside Bangladesh at Alurbagan, Minartila and Khanthalbari at Shreepur along the Jaintapur border since June 25, 17 hours after a high-level flag meeting between the border guards of the two countries held at the Dauki BSF camp at Tamabil where they agreed to keep peace in the frontier.
Awami Law makers lied to people
On June 26, an Indian fired into Bangladeshis near Dibir Haor in which a boy, Suman, 15, a resident of the area, was injured when he went there to look for his cow near the Jaintapur border outpost.
The local Awami League lawmaker visited the spot and calmed the villagers after assuring them of informing higher authorities and seeking resolution of the border issues.
Bangladeshis injured by indians shooting
The people injured in firing by the Indians include
Kayes Ahmed, 12, a resident of Kendigram, Delwar Hosen, 18, and Nur Mohammed, 42, residents of Asampara, Abdul Mannan, 22, Kalam, 24, and Rashendra Chandra, 36, residents of Adarsha Guchchhagram at Jaintapur. The injured were sent to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital, local BDR officials said.
BDR officials said some 25 Indian Khasia tribesmen crossed the Jaintapur border into Bangladesh up to Minartila near the Shreepur BDR outpost about 11:00am on Sunday and resumed tilling cropland about 200 meters inside the Bangladesh territory ignoring BDR protests.
At one point, about 20 Bangladeshi young people, tendering cows near the border, chased the Indians about 1:00pm and forced them to get back into India.Half an hour later, the Khasia tribesmen regrouped and some 50 to 60 of them again entered Bangaldesh up to Minartila and resumed tilling, the sources said.
Awami League stooge regime made BDR a ineffective force
At that time, some 250 residents of Asampara, Shreepur, Kendrigram, Minartila and Adarsha Guchchhagram again tried to stop the Indians from tilling. BDR soldiers then stopped the Bangladeshis from doing so.
Enraged at the move of the BDR soldiers, the villagers vandalised the Minartila BDR checkpoint and chased the Indians. The Indians then fired into Bangladesh, in which at least 10 were injured.
The MInartila BDR checkpoint in-charge, Monir Uddin Bhuiyan, told New Age they had tried to stop the villagers from chasing the Indians as they had been armed.The villagers attacked the BDR checkpoint as we tried to stop them, a BDR soldier said. He said the villagers pelted the border guards with stones for not firing back at the Indians after they had started firing.
The villagers later blocked the SylhetTamabil Road at Shreepur in protest at the attack by the Indians and the BDRs role of being onlookers during the attack, local sources said.
More lie by Awami lawmaker
Imran Ahmad, the local lawmaker, visited the spot and managed to withdraw the barricade about 4:00pm after assuring them of asking hither authorities to immediately resolve the issue.Imran in the afternoon told New Age that he had informed the government authorities concerned of the matter.
The government is very sincere in this regard and a joint task force of India and Bangladesh is working to resolve the border issues, he said.
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