71 Bangladeshis killed by BSF in 8 months with the latest incident on early Wednesday Between 1 January 2000 and 10 July 2009 a total of 789 people were reported killed, 846 injured and 895 abducted by the BSF  The killing spree of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) continues along the Bangladesh border taking the total of Bangladeshis to 71 in little over eight months. In the latest incident as report by UNB, Indian border guards gunned down a Bangladeshi cattle trader along Poladanga border in Sadar upazila early Wednesday.The victim was identified as Manir Hossain, 28, son of Entaj Ali of Kodalkathi village in the upazila. BDR sources said the BSF troops from DMC outpost fired shots on Manir when he was returning home with cattle from India at about 2am, killing him on the spot. The BSF men then took away his body. Earlier, a report published in 'The Bangladesh Today' on 1st September, 2009, said BSF killed 70 Bangladeshis in last eight months. The latest victim was Ershad Ali 32, a cattle trader who was killed along Putkhali border on 31 August. According to statistics projected by 'Adhikar', a non-government human rights watchdog, some 62 Bangladeshi civilians were killed by the Indian BSF from January 1 to July 11 this year. It said: in more than nine years between 1 January 2000 and 10 July 2009 a total of 789 people were reported killed, 846 injured and 895 abducted by the BSF. With the killing on August 31 the number of Bangladeshis killed since 1 January 2009 stands at 70. Now after the killing on Wednesday the total rose to 71, and the total deaths from 1 January 2000 to Sept 9, 2009 stands at 798. The killings of unarmed Bangladeshis by the BSF on the border are continuing in clear violation of the spirit of good neighborliness as well as international law and despite repeated pledges by the Indian authorities to stop it. |
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