HOWEVER it is objectionable how India "Protects" it. Border with Bangladesh is NOT like the border with Kashmir or Punjab. People on both sides are friendly to each others over centuries. Unless these people are armed, I do not see any reason to use any ammunition in our border. I had chances to visit our border areas several times and average people are not a fan of how Indians treats us.
As a growing regional power, it is in interest of India to "Correct" it's colonial ways with our people. Because of these abusive attitude and bureaucratic problems our governments cannot function like friendly countries. As a result India is very unpopular among public. Which is one of the reasons why BNP leaders talk about Indian policies and gets support for it. India has problems with ALL of her neighbors (Not only Pakistan). Recently with Sri Lanka as well. Our current leaders went out of their ways to give India many opportunities to gain some traction but so far India failed to capitalize on these chances.
Pakistan ceased to have any meaningful influence among main stream Bangladeshis (busy with dealing with USA and population hostile to Bhutto's party) but sadly India failed to take advantage of it. As a member of a neighboring country, I sincerely want India to be a good regional leader looking after the whole region in a fair manner. But India failed India again.....
Blaming imaginary jihadis are old tricks (Since they are not popular among main stream Bangladeshis). Maybe it is high time to take meaningful steps towards a friendly country like Bangladesh.
Shalom!!
From: Sukhamaya Bain <subain1@yahoo.com>
To: mukto-mona <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 23, 2012 4:44 am
Subject: [mukto-mona] Re: Four cattle smugglers killed by BSF
To:
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:24 PM
Subject: [mukto-mona] FW: Four teenagers from SC & Muslim communities were killed by BSF without using bulletst; Impunity continued
Note also how well Kirity Roy and MASUM monitor the atrocities with specific details, not with doctored photogtaphs for propaganda purpose only and not to help the victims.
Farida Majid
Subject: Four teenagers from SC & Muslim communities were killed by BSF without using bulletst; Impunity continued
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Re: [mukto-mona] Re: Four cattle smugglers killed by BSF
Thanks for your thoughtful post. Like any countries India has the right to protect her borders.
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The title of the message was misleading. So, I have edited it a bit. Those boys were killed or tortured not because they were SC or Muslim; they were tortured and killed because they were smuggling cattle in the middle of the night across the India-Bangladesh border.
Now, I am not suggesting that torturing and killing of cattle smugglers is an acceptable behavior for a state paramilitary force. These acts are condemnable by any civilized standard, and the perpetrators should be appropriately punished. However, I have been unwilling to entertain the big talks of Bangladeshis being killed by the BSF.
Here is a case where four Indian citizens were tortured and killed by the border guards of India (BSF). There is no doubt that among the smugglers there are more Bangladeshis than Indians, and more Bangladeshis are likely to face the treatments of the jungle by the BSF. Yes, a lot of the law enforcement in our subcontinent is done via barbaric techniques. That is very wrong, and needs to be corrected; and looks like the Indian authorities are trying to do that for the cattle smugglers. The Bangladeshi news media and human rights group have been doing a disservice to their professions by portraying the criminals at the border as ordinary/innocent Bangladeshis.
Sukhamaya Bain
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From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
Look how the beastly BSF treats Indian citizens near the Indo-Bangladesh border area!
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:26:30 +0800
Honestly! Is this not jungle-raj in this country? Why do we call ourselves "cultured" and having centuries of civilization? Total anarchy in every area of governance?
21 March 2012
To
The Chairman
National Human Rights Commission
Faridkot House
Copernicus Marg
New Delhi - 1
Respected Sir
I want to attract your attention to an incident of gruesome killings of 4 teenaged boys by the posted Border Security Force personnel. I am perturbed with the fact and reality of continuous killing spree by BSF personnel at the Indo- Bangladesh bordering district. In this shocking incident, BSF personnel following their mandate not used lethal weapon to kill those boys rather forced the victims to stay put in ice cold water for hours and while they tried to came out of water severely beaten with sticks. Ultimately they died. Out of four victims, three boys are from Dalit community and one from religious minority group.
The inhumanity shown by the BSF personnel is against any law of civilized land and in continuation of savage and berserk act of torture and intimidation.
The families of deceased are under threat and not in a position to make complaint to police station in regular course nonetheless gathered courage and made written complaints to the Superintendent of Police – Murshidabad but without any recourse. They specifically demanded for an impartial inquiry on the incident.
I demand for an impartial investigation by your Commission over the incident and charging of the offenders with appropriate legal provisions. I further request your Commission to recommend for full safety and security for the family members of the deceased.
Our attached detail will prove severity of the incident.
Sincerely Yours
(Kirity Roy)
Secretary, MASUM
&
National Convenor, PACTI
Name and other details of the victims – 1) Sunil Mondal, son of Mr. Nabadwip Mondal, aged 16 years 2) Sukumar Mondal, son of Mr. Ramesh Chandra Mondal, aged about 15 years 3) Babar Seikh, son of Mr. Nasidul Seikh, aged about 19 years and 4) Raju Mondal, son of Mr. Nimai Mondal aged about 17 years residents of Char Durgapur, Harudanga, Char Bansgora and Char Durgapur villages respectively of Harudanga post office, under Raninagar police station of Murshidabad district. All are minors except no.3. Sl. No. 1 Sunil; Sl. No. 2 Sukumar & Sl. No. 4 Raju are from Scheduled Caste (Dalit) community and Sl. No. 3 Babar is Muslim.
Details of the perpetrators – about 30-35 Border Security Force personnel attached with Harudanga Border Security Force Mini Camp under 105 BSF Battalion
Date and time of the occurrence – Midnight of 31st December, 2011 and 1st January 2012
Place of Occurrence – In front of Harudanga Mini BSF BOP Camp, near Golpak ( a rivulet of Padma) situated at Nirmal Char under Ranitala police station
Case Detail
The victims belong to socio- economically marginalized section of the society and deprived off any governmental deliverances. All the families are victims of river erosion by river Padma and lost their agrarian lands. They sustain on their small pieces of land and by putting their labour on agrarian lands of others.
On fateful day the mentioned boys in their teen were out of their houses on the pretext of having a New Year bash but it was revealed during the fact finding that they were involved in cattle rattling as mere courier at the said time. They collected about 50 cows from some Dhananjay Mondal and Sandip Mondal Border Para and Char Durgapur under Raninangar police station. The said boys were with other rattlers who tried to smuggle out the cattle at the midnight from the adjacent area of the said Mini Camp. By sensing this BSF personnel fired from flare gun and located that few of them tried to hide at the said rivulet. The rivulet is nearly 2 kilometers inside the Indian Territory and 120 feet in width, 12 feet deep and 2 kilometers in length. BSF personnel from the Mini Camp wasted no time and traveled about 2 kilometers to reach at the place from the said Mini Camp. The mentioned 4 teenage boys with another rattler Tapas Mondal alias Bhenu Mondal, son of Panchanan Mondal of Char Durgapur village were surrounded by nearly 30 BSF personnel. The only survivor, Tapas Mondal received burn injury from the flare gun shot and somehow managed to flee from the place. The BSF personnel surrounded the place and while the boys tried to come up from the ice cold water of full winter, they were resisted and beaten with their sticks and all of them died at the rivulet. One of the deceased; Sukumar Mondal had marks of blood oozing out on his ear and nostrils apart from injuries caused by heavy canning. The marks of beating with sticks were allover the bodies of the deceased. The deceased were all good swimmers as usual and the chances of drowning are unimaginable.
On 1st January, 2012 at evening, the bodies of Sunil Mondal and Sukumar Mondal appeared and many villagers witness the same. The news spread like wildfire and family members of the deceased later identified their bodies. The villagers informed Ranitala police station about the incident and police from the said police station came along with 4-5 BSF personnel from the said Mini Camp and brought the bodies to Ranitala police station at about 9 pm. Later, on 2nd January 2012 at about 2 pm, other two bodies of Babar Seikh and Raju Mondal were appeared and again the Ranitala police station brought the bodies to the police station and on 3.1.12 the bodies were sent for post mortem examination at Lalbagh Sub Divisional Hospital. The post mortem examinations were done in two consecutive days; 3.1.12 and 4.1.12 for Sunil Mondal and Sukumar Mondal, and Babar Seikh and Raju Mondal respectively.
Fathers of the deceased boys made written complaint on 27.1.2012 to the Superintendent of Police- Murshidabad. The complainants observed about the involvement of BSF personnel in this gruesome murder of the teenaged boys and requested for a impartial and adequate inquiry. The police initiated unnatural death cases vide Ranitala PS UD Case Nos. 1 and 2, dated 2.1.12 for Sunil Mondal and Sukumar Mondal respectively and 3 and 4, dated 3.1.12 for Babar Seikh and Raju Mondal respectively. While our activist contacted Ranitala police station for detail of the incident, they refused to divulge any information.
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