Hilarious! Its so funny! Slapstick comedy!
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> *Editorial
> *Govt needs to make its position clear on BSF excesses
>
> THE latest intrusion of Indian nationals into Bangladesh territory on Sunday
> at Jaintapur in Sylhet, seemingly at the behest of the Border Security Force
> of India, which prompted an exchange of gunshots between the Bangladesh
> Rifles and the BSF, causing injury to at least 15 Bangladeshi civilians,
> tends to indicate that the Indian guards may not be in the mood to exercise
> restraint so as to avoid confrontation or prevent killing of civilians on
> the border. According to a report front-paged in New Age on Monday, tension
> also mounted at Pratappur in Gowainghat where the border guards of the two
> countries faced off after the BSF had crossed the border and took position
> in the bunkers that they had dug inside Bangladesh territory Thursday night.
> Although the BSF left the bunkers and went back into India Saturday night
> after a flag meeting, they again entered Bangladesh and took position in the
> bunkers Saturday morning. Incidentally, the two incidents of intrusion, by
> Indian nationals in the first and by the BSF in the second, took place
> within three days of the conclusion of a director general-level conference
> between the border guards of the two countries where the BSF agreed to stop
> intrusion of Indian nationals into Bangladesh territory and exercise
> restraint to prevent killing of Bangladeshi civilians.
>
> Needless to say, the BSF has consistently defied all agreements and
> conventions, bilateral and multilateral, and carried on with all kinds of
> aggressive and intrusive activities. Over the years, the BSF atrocities have
> reached such proportions that the BDR even recommended, in a report
> submitted to the government in the first week of January, a dusk-to-dawn ban
> on movement of Bangladeshi civilians within 150 metres of the zero point
> inside Bangladesh territory, to prevent loss of lives. In the report, the
> BDR noted that the BSF `kept flouting the Joint India-Bangladesh Guideline
> 1975 and the International Human Rights Convention.' Regrettably, the joint
> communiqué, released at the end of the Bangladesh prime minister January
> 10-13 visit to India, painted the BDR and the BSF with the same brush and
> asked them both to exercise restraint, although the BDR has exercised
> restraint and the BSF perpetrated excesses all along. The resolution of the
> just-concluded director general-level conference similarly bracketed the BDR
> and the BSF with regard to the flare-ups on the border.
>
> In the past one month or so, the BSF has appeared rather hell bent on
> instigating trouble on the Jaintapur border. There have been several
> incidents of intrusion of Indian nationals into Bangladesh territory,
> apparently at the instigation of the BSF, one of which resulted in exchange
> of more than 1,000 gunshots between the border guards of the two countries.
> Moreover, the BSF even kidnapped a BDR soldier at gunpoint and detained him
> for more than 10 hours. Besides, in the first two months of the calendar
> year, at least 17 Bangladeshis have been killed by the BSF.
>
> The Awami League-led government has consistently trumpeted the prime
> minister's recent visit to India as breakthrough in the relations between
> the two countries and that it has been successful to persuade its Indian
> counterpart to resolve the border disputes. However, the ground reality
> tends to indicate otherwise. It is time, therefore, that the government came
> out with an unequivocal statement on the BSF atrocities on the border and
> how it plans to redress the issue. After all, the BSF actions are nothing
> short of attack against Bangladesh's territorial sovereignty.
>
> http://www.newagebd.com/2010/mar/16/edit.html
>
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