One more Bangladeshi citizen was killed along Daulatpur border in Benapole early Tuesday as the killing spree of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on the Bangladesh border continues unabated despite India's repeated pledges to stop such killings. With this, four Bangladeshis were killed by BSF in the first 11 days of 2010 taking the total number of deaths from January 1, 2009 to January 11, 2010 to 90. The number of Bangladeshis killed by BSF during the ten years period from January 1, 2000 to January 11, 2010 stands at 815. BSF also injured 857 and abducted 897 Bangladeshis in the same period.
In regard to the border killings, the agreement (MOU) that is signed by the Indian government with the Bangladesh prime minister during her diplomatic tour to India. With this latest killing of Ala, 30, son of Akbor Ali of Goira village, the Indian Government has already violated their agreement of bringing the border killings to a halt. This sort of brutality by the giant neighbor against poor Ala and many others has been continuing for decades; it has made thousands of young children fatherless, hundreds of young women widows and brought untold amounts of suffering for hundreds of families for the past decade.
While there are organizations like the UN, Amnesty International, and all other Human rights organizations created to protect the weak from this sort of injustices. Every single one of those organizations seems to be remaining silent or perhaps oblivious of the situation. The reality is, the Bangladesh government its self has cowardly failed to protect its citizens. But the question is how many more Ala's can we offer to the Indian bullet? How many more crying mothers, children, widows and fathers are we prepared to see? How long can we allow these barbaric killings to continue on the innocent human beings?
M.S. Ahmed Azad
Essex, UK.
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