The beastly BSF has been engaged in atrocities againt innocent civilians indiscriminately on both sides of the border. Indian Human Rights activists have been making strong and organized protests. Perhaps our 'Odhikar' type of organizarions should join hands with them and see if a dent in the hopeless situation can be created. Govt. level negotiations have proved fruitless so far, whether BNP or BAAAAAAAAL is heading the BD administration. India-bashers of BD who use this as a stick to beat AL with should think of this long and steady record of BSF abuses.
I really do not understand India's politics behind this wanton killing spree. But Indian State-sponsored terrorism against its own people is endemic and rife in every state of India. Read Arundhati Roy against the Govt. assault on the Maoist insurgents. It is a shameful picture everywhere you look.
Farida Majid
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Abuses by India's Border Security Force; Questions about Media Coverage
SEPIA MUTINY
http://www.sepiamut
Via the New York Times blog, The Lede, I've been looking at a number of links regarding India's Border Security Force (BSF). The starting point for the coverage in the Times was the news in the Deccan Herald that 178 women have, for the first time, joined the force. But the real story The Lede blogger, Robert Mackey, is interested in are the numerous reports of abuses by the BSF, specifically the killing of unarmed people on both sides of the India-Bangladesh border, including both Bangladeshis and Indian citizens. The Lede embeds the following BBC Channel 4 report on the abuses, which is pretty horrifying:
See Channel Four Story on BSF (10 minutes) Check out
http://link.
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: qrahman@netscape.net
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:40:53 -0500
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] BSF kills 1000 Bangladeshis in 10yrs
Since BAL has good relations with India, I was hoping they will let us control our population by orthodox ways (using contraceptives)------not by killing small farmer and traders like cattle. I do not think we need Indian "Help" in this area anymore.
India's officials need to explain the difference between border with Kashmir and border with Bangladesh to BSF members. We do not have hostile relations with India. However Indian "Hostile" attitude may produce hostile neighbors in future.
I do not think India needs another "Hot" border in near future.
From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
Sent: Tue, Dec 14, 2010 8:20 am
Subject: [ALOCHONA] BSF kills 1000 Bangladeshis in 10yrs
BSF kills 1000 Bangladeshis in 10yrs
Dhaka, Dec 13 (bdnews24.com)—Some 1,000 Bangladeshis were killed by
Indian border guards over the last decade, according to a report
released by rights groups.
Human rights group Odhikar and Human Rights Watch At a press
conference at BRAC Centre on Monday revealed the report on killing,
abuse and torture by the Border Security Force (BSF) of India along
the border.
Apart from the killings, the report says, the Indian border guards
usually threaten, abuse and beat us Bangladeshi people living in
frontiers villages, but they hardly get any cooperation from
Bangladesh police. "It's a gross violation of human rights."
The report was prepared based on statements of victims, witnesses,
journalists, human rights workers, law enforcement officials and
members of BSF and BDR.
The report says that the governments of both Bangladesh and India need
to hold joint, fair investigations into the situation. "India must
also discard the attitude of avoiding responsibility."
Taking part in an open discussion, Odhikar general secretary Atikur
Rahman Khan said BSF is killing one Bangladeshi every four days.
"Both governments must take steps to stop these mindless killings," he said.
A father who lost his teenage son to BSF gunfire and a man who was
shot and injured shared their agonies at the press conference.
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