India pledges zero casualties on Bangladesh border
India’s Border Security Force soldiers patrol near a fenced border with a neighbouring country, Jan12, 2010. — Photo by Reuters/File
DHAKA: India’s border agency chief said he was working with Bangladesh to bring down the number of people killed along the two countries’ porous border.
The pledge to bring casualties to zero comes amid concern that Indian soldiers were too aggressive.
Indian border director U K Bansal told a news conference Saturday that steps had already been taken to cut the number of casualties.
He said six Bangladeshis had been killed by India’s Border Security Force this year. The number was 55 in 2009.
He said the two sides had discussed issues like illegal migration, smuggling and other cross-border crimes at a five-day border conference in Dhaka.
New York-based Human Rights Watch has repeatedly criticised the Indian force in recent years for killing too many Bangladeshis along the border.
What Bengladeshi civilians are doing at the border? Trying to sneak in India?How many people get killed in the US being on some ones property,since tress passing is a criminal offense in the US, and the courts let the shooters go free. And I never read this news item what the Dawn attributed to New york based Human Rights Watch,I’m here in NYC for lat 43 years and I read the New York Times, which we call the Times,religiously daily.
This is great of Dawn of Pakistan to publish the article. Even though my parents are from the South of India, and my father served under the IG of Police (British) in undivided Bengal, and I was born in Calcutta, I do feel that the Bengals are one, just like the Punjabs, notwithstanding the barbed wire and soldiering as shown in the pic.