The cruelty of BSF:3 Bangladeshi's including mother, infant child killed by drunk BSF

[Raquib]

3 Bangladeshi's including mother, infant child killed by drunk Indian soldiers!

An infant and the mother and another Bangladeshi were killed late Sunday night by India's Border Security Force on the country's northernmost border, said a BDR official.

"The deceased were identified as 35 year-old Golam Mustofa, 25-year-old Majeda Begum and her one-year-old infant Mamun," major Sheikh Farid, in-charge of Panchagarh-25 Battalion, told bdnews24.com.

At least one other person, Majeda's husband Shahidul, 30, was critically wounded and taken to Rangpur Medical College Hospital.

BSF personnel entered Moyanaguri village of the Majhipara border area in Tentulia, crossing the border through the Pillar-435 area at around 10.15pm, the major said.

They started opening fire after villagers had intercepted them, he said.

Shahidul, Majeda and Mamun were shot as they lay asleep in their home, said villagers.

Shahidul's neighbour, Alamgir Hossain said: "I was woken by the sound of gunfire and realised it was BSF. I cycled to Matirpara BDR camp for help."

Villagers said the two sides traded fire after BDR members reached the spot.

The Indian border guards eventually withdrew. "BDR members with villagers later captured one BSF man," the major said.

"Homes, riddled with bullet holes, were deserted as villagers took shelter at the local high school," bdnews24.com's correspondent reported from the scene around midnight.

"Senior BDR officers are present at the scene. Both BDR and BSF have reinforced their presence along the border," Major Farid told bdnews24.com.

 

[s90]

Here is news

Indian troops drinking military into the red

Thu, Oct 23, 2008,AFP

NEW DELHI - India's million-plus army is consuming much more alcohol than permitted, causing huge financial losses to the state and raising suspicions of widespread black marketeering, a report said Thursday.

Among the biggest culprits is the Indian army's most prestigious hospital in New Delhi and a military spy unit attached to Prime Minister Manmohan

Singh's office, the Midday evening newspaper said.

When contacted by AFP, defence ministry and army sources confirmed there was a serious problem.

Indian soldiers are allowed a certain amount of heavily-subsidised liquor for personal consumption, but the report said the limit was being widely flouted.

It said 43 army units had inflicted a loss of around 100 million rupees (at least two million dollars) on the government over the past 18 months, the paper said.

"We suspect some of it is finding its way into the civilian market and we are trying to plug it," a colonel from the army's Central Stores Department told AFP.

A major-general was arrested in 2005 after he smuggled two truck-loads of liquor to the open market, where military alcohol can be sold for double the price soldiers pay.

The army recently issued smart cards to its 1.23 million troopers keep tabs on consumption.

 

[Raquib]

how cruel those *******s kill an infant child...

 

[Raquib]

now what can I expect from my Indian friends. In previous topics, you the claimed that people killed at the border by BSF were terrorist, smugglers etc...
And now what you say about this?

It is an accident or you wanna claim a mother and an infant child as terrorists!!!

 

[vish]

If this is indeed true, the guilty should be punished.

 

[Raquib]

If this is indeed true, the guilty should be punished.

they will never be punished as its going in this way for years. killing innocent people, claimng them terrorist is all they can do. since this case is a bit different, they got no say...

 

[Imran Khan]

so sad its not good for read

 

[Al-zakir]

Here is that coward BSF scum captured by the local. This bustard shuld be beheaded.

Detained BSF man in hospital
Mon, Nov 17th, 2008 4:08 pm BdST


Rangpur, Nov 17 (bdnews24.com) – The Indian border guard who was arrested after three Bangladeshis were killed Sunday night in BSF shooting on the country's northernmost border of Tetulia is under treatment at the Rangpur Medical College.

The villagers caught Ashu Singh and handed him over to the Bangladesh Rifles when Border Security Force personnel entered Moyanaguri village of the Majhipara border area in Tentulia, crossing on Sunday night. They entered a house in the village and opened fire.

A woman, her two-year-old child and her cousin were killed in the shooting. The other BSF members managed to flee to the other side of the border.

The deceased had been identified as 35 year-old Golam Mustofa, 25-year-old Majeda Begum and her one-year-old infant Mamun, major Sheikh Farid, in-charge of Panchagarh-25 Battalion, told bdnews24.com on Sunday.

Shahidul, husband of the Majeda, who was wounded by the reckless firing, is also under treatment in the same hospital.

"We opened the door and the firing started," he told journalists.

"When the villagers came out hearing the sound of gunfire, the BSF members fled."

bdnews24.com/corr/mi/tf/bd/1534hours

 

[Raquib]

Here is that coward BSF scum captured by the local. This bustard shuld be beheaded.

Detained BSF man in hospital
Mon, Nov 17th, 2008 4:08 pm BdST


Rangpur, Nov 17 (bdnews24.com) – The Indian border guard who was arrested after three Bangladeshis were killed Sunday night in BSF shooting on the country's northernmost border of Tetulia is under treatment at the Rangpur Medical College.

The villagers caught Ashu Singh and handed him over to the Bangladesh Rifles when Border Security Force personnel entered Moyanaguri village of the Majhipara border area in Tentulia, crossing on Sunday night. They entered a house in the village and opened fire.

A woman, her two-year-old child and her cousin were killed in the shooting. The other BSF members managed to flee to the other side of the border.

The deceased had been identified as 35 year-old Golam Mustofa, 25-year-old Majeda Begum and her one-year-old infant Mamun, major Sheikh Farid, in-charge of Panchagarh-25 Battalion, told bdnews24.com on Sunday.

Shahidul, husband of the Majeda, who was wounded by the reckless firing, is also under treatment in the same hospital.

"We opened the door and the firing started," he told journalists.

"When the villagers came out hearing the sound of gunfire, the BSF members fled."

bdnews24.com/corr/mi/tf/bd/1534hours

this symbolizes their strength...

 

[Black Stone]

This is sad news...

 

[BanglaBhoot]

In this last news item the BSF soldiers are not mentioned to be drunk. Was this then a premeditated killing?

 

[Neo]

Thats very sad news.
R.I.P.

 

[su-47]

Horrendous act by BSF. I hope the guilty are punished severely.

This was the act of a few individuals. This does not reflect the attitude or mindset of all Indians. I as an Indian, am deeply ashamed and all my sympathies go to the victims of this tragedy. may they rest in peace. I hope Mr. Shahidul recover from his injuries, though I don't know to what extent one will ever recover from the killing of one's wife and child.

 

[s90]

I never knew that Bangla-Indo border is now more tense than Pak-Indo border

 

[BanglaBhoot]

BSF apology and the dumb foreign office

Shamsul Huq Zahid

Yet again some trigger-happy members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) entered a border village in Panchagar in the north of Bangladesh last Sunday night, opened fire indiscriminately on the villagers, killing three people, including a young woman and her baby boy and injuring 15 more. The BSF action on the innocent villagers was unprovoked.

According to an eyewitness account, one of the intruding BSF members, allegedly, shot and killed the young woman and her boy after failing to violate her. The villagers, however, managed to capture the said BSF personnel and handed him over to the BDR after giving a good thrashing.
At a flag meeting between the local sector commanders of BSF and the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) held next day, the Indian side regretted the incident and sought forgiveness.

The violation of the borderline between the two countries and killing of innocent Bangladesh villagers by the BSF members have become rather routine events in recent years. According to an unofficial estimate, nearly 800 Bangladeshis have been shot and killed by the BSF during last eight years.

It appears that the BSF is becomingly increasingly intolerant to Bangladesh and under the slightest of pretext its members target Bangladesh citizens living along the border areas.

The height of their animosity towards Bangladesh and its people was highlighted through the last Sunday's incident. India has erected barbed wire fences along most part of its border with Bangladesh. The BSF men made their way through the fence along borderline in Panchagar and launched attack on the villagers.

It is hard to believe that the central administration in New Delhi has ever ordered the BSF men to commit such criminal acts. But, it, apparently, has neither advised them to exercise restraint even after the recurrence of similar incidents frequently.

Through every incident of BSF intrusion and killing of Bangladesh citizens the strength of Bangladesh government is put to taste. Is the failure to respond to such violation of the country's sovereignty on the part of the government from time to time has emboldened the BSF and made the New Delhi indifferent?

There is no denying that the administration in Dhaka acted rather meekly in the face of BSF unwarranted actions. The Sunday's incident is a glaring example. Surprisingly, the foreign office did say or act nothing throughout Monday on the incident. It should have summoned the Indian high commissioner in Bangladesh and demanded of him an explanation. Is an apology from a petty BSF official for such a heinous crime and attack on the country's sovereignty enough?

The priority task of a government, elected or otherwise, of any country is to protect the country and its citizens from the onslaught of external forces. There is no way of shirking this responsibility.

The Indian government, on a number of occasions in the past, had summoned the Bangladesh envoy in New Delhi and made known its annoyance over some border incidents in which there were some casualties on the Indian side.

The issue relating to the recurrence of untoward incidents along Bangladesh-India border came up for discussion at many top-level meetings between the BDR and the BSF and other high officials of the two countries. There were plenty of assurances that steps would be taken to stop recurrence of the same. But there has been no let up in the incidents marked by high-handedness on the part of the BSF men.

Who does not know India is a regional military and an emerging global economic superpower? But is it necessary for the border security forces to demonstrate the mightiness of their country before the small neighbours including Bangladesh? Does the Indian government approve of the belligerent attitude often displayed by a section of BSF men?

Despite intermittent efforts from both India and Bangladesh to improve the no-so-happy relations between them, neither of the close neighbours until now is satisfied. There exist mistrust and irritants, including sharing of waters of the common rivers and huge trade deficit, waiting to be resolved through sincere efforts from both sides.

There is no denying that, rightly or wrongly, there exists a sort of India-phobia among a section of people in Bangladesh. Honestly speaking, some actions or inactions on the part of India have lent credence and helped further spread of that phobia. The border incidents that have claimed so far hundreds of lives of innocent Bangladesh citizens are among those.

The water-sharing issue does no more attract much attention since the act of causing damage to the Bangladesh environment through the construction of the Farakka Barrage is complete by now. It cannot be reversed anyway. The trade in the globalised world is an issue of competition. Blaming a country for not importing enough from a particular country does not make sense. But the border incidents that claim innocent lives whip up popular sentiment. The giant neighbour can go a long way in improving the bilateral relations just by stopping the recurrence of border incidents.

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