Re: [mukto-mona] Re: Four cattle smugglers killed by BSF

Here is another misleading news headline. This killing was not because the victim was a Bangladeshi, because he was a cattle smuggler/thief crossing the border illegally in the middle of the night.

 

See how aggressive the cattle thieves could be. They killed a police officer and seriously injured two of his colleagues in Dhaka.

 

Again, I think the issue of cattle thieves being killed at the border should be raised as a human rights issue, because in the civilized world, we provide a good deal of human rights even to criminals. It should not be talked about in terms of how India or BSF treats Bangladesh or Bangladeshis in general.

 

Sukhamaya Bain

 

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From: Sukhamaya Bain <subain1@yahoo.com>
To: "mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:44 PM
Subject: [mukto-mona] Re: Four cattle smugglers killed by BSF

 

The title of the message was misleading. So, I have edited it a bit. Those boys were killed or tortured not because they were SC or Muslim; they were tortured and killed because they were smuggling cattle in the middle of the night across the India-Bangladesh border.

 

Now, I am not suggesting that torturing and killing of cattle smugglers is an acceptable behavior for a state paramilitary force. These acts are condemnable by any civilized standard, and the perpetrators should be appropriately punished. However, I have been unwilling to entertain the big talks of Bangladeshis being killed by the BSF.

 

Here is a case where four Indian citizens were tortured and killed by the border guards of India (BSF). There is no doubt that among the smugglers there are more Bangladeshis than Indians, and more Bangladeshis are likely to face the treatments of the jungle by the BSF. Yes, a lot of the law enforcement in our subcontinent is done via barbaric techniques. That is very wrong, and needs to be corrected; and looks like the Indian authorities are trying to do that for the cattle smugglers. The Bangladeshi news media and human rights group have been doing a disservice to their professions by portraying the criminals at the border as ordinary/innocent Bangladeshis.

 

Sukhamaya Bain

 

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From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:24 PM
Subject: [mukto-mona] FW: Four teenagers from SC & Muslim communities were killed by BSF without using bulletst; Impunity continued

 

Look how the beastly BSF treats Indian citizens near the Indo-Bangladesh border area! ...................

 

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