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| http://www.shahriar.info (শাহরিয়ারের স্বপ্নবিলাস) A global human rights group on Tuesday asked the Indian government to prosecute members of its Border Security Force (BSF) for recent high-profile cases of torture to send a message that such practices would no longer be tolerated. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the BSF soldiers, long implicated in torture and extrajudicial killings near the border with Bangladesh, were captured in a video posted on YouTube brutally beating a Bangladeshi national caught smuggling cattle in West Bengal state. It said the Indian government awarded a medal to a police superintendant alleged to have ordered the torture and sexual assault of a female schoolteacher in Chhattisgarh state, instead of investigating him. "These horrific images of torture on video show what rights groups have long documented: that India's Border Security Force is out of control," said Meenakshi Ganguly... more | |
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