5 Bangladeshis shot, injured by BSF in two days:83 killed in 11 months Five Bangladeshis received bullet injures during the last two days as Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) opened fire on unarmed Bangladeshis despite its repeated pledges to maintain restrain. A Bangladeshi national was shot and injured by BSF along Uchhna border in Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur on Saturday morning. The injured was identified as Moyem Uddin 28, son of Kayem Uddin of Uchhna village in the upazila. Joypurhat 3 Rifles Battalion said that BSF opened fire on Moyem when he went near the border at about 6:40am, leaving him seriously injured. Local people rescued and admitted Moyem to Pachbibi Upazila Health Complex. BDR sent a letter to the BSF protesting the incident. Earlier, four Bangladeshis were wounded as they were shot by BSF along Chapainawabgonj and Lalmonirhat border on Friday. The injured were identified as Yusuf, 40, and Kion Mia, 20, of Chandpur village, and Sayem, 35, of Kakmari village, in Shibganj in Chapainawabgonj and Tahajul Islam, 25 of Lalmonirhat. BSF promised not to commit atrocities on the border time and again, the latest on November 11 in a sector commanders meeting, but disregarded its own commitment. Meanwhile, the total number of Bangladeshis killed by BSF during the period from January 1 to November 11 rose to 83. According to statistics projected by 'Odhikar', a non-government human rights watchdog, some 62 Bangladeshi civilians were killed by the Indian BSF from January 1 to July 11 this year. More than nine years between 1 January 2000 and 11 November 2009 a total of 809 people were reported killed, 846 injured and 895 abducted by the BSF. 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. In every meeting between BSF and BDR and also between the higher level officials of the two countries, the Indian side assures that killing of Bangladeshis by its forces on the border would come to an end immediately. But this pledge is seldom implemented. |
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