Instead of protecting Bangladeshi citizens from brutal and illegal indian killing, Awami regime is accepting indian killing and selling our independence to india. Yet want to be indian dalals thinks this is an achivement of awami regime. But its funny indians do not accept half hearted dalal, looking for only complete submissive one. But negotiation on indian dalali price continues
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Night-time movement in border areas restricted
Govt takes decision to avert killings by BSF
Mustafizur Rahman
The government on Sunday imposed restrictions on night-time movement of people in the border areas to avert killing of Bangladeshis by the Indian Border Security Force.
The home affairs ministry at an inter-ministry meeting on border affairs issued the directives to the local administrations and the Bangladesh Rifles against the backdrop of rising incidents of killing by Indian border guards and drugs smuggling.
The BSF has reportedly killed over 900 Bangladeshis in the past decade and most of the shootings usually take place in the dark of night.
Home minister Sahara Khatun, who presided over the meeting at the secretariat, said that the authorities concerned had been ordered to take necessary steps to restrict the night-time movement of people in the border areas which would also help check cross-border smuggling.
‘Both BDR and the deputy commissioners of the districts concerned have been directed to restrict night-time movement in the border areas to avert killings by BSF,’ Sahara Khatun told reporters after the meeting.
She said that the local administrations had also been asked to form committees taking representatives from local communities to motivate people so that they did not move along the borders at night.
The Indian border force, according to a report of rights organisation Odhikar, killed a total of 910 Bangladeshis between January 2000 and April 2010.
In a latest incident, the BSF shot dead two Bangladeshis and injured three others on Ratnai border in Baliadangi upazila of Thakurgaon on Friday. The killing continues despite repeated assurances from India that such incidents would not take place in future.
Sahara said Dhaka would further ask Delhi to stop killing of Bangladeshis by BSF along the borders ‘which takes place time and again.’
The minister said that the Indian government had earlier restricted night-time movement on the other side of the borders and the incidents of casualties, as a result, had come down in their territory from cross-border firing.
The home minister said that the inter-ministry meeting was a follow-up to prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to New Delhi in January when the heads of the two governments agreed to settle the border issues between the two neighbours in the light of the Indira-Mujib agreement of 1974.
In response to a query, home secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder said that the deputy commissioners in the bordering districts would take steps in a day or two to announce through loudhailers that people’s movement had been restricted in the border areas at night time.
If anyone comes out in the restricted areas at night time, they will do so at their own risk, the secretary warned.
He said India had violated the boundary agreement and trespassed into 150 yards from the zero point in erecting barbed-wire fences at least at 46 points.
‘A joint survey has already detected that India has trespassed at 12 points in constructing barbed wire on the borders. No country can construct structures inside 150 yards from the zero point,’ the secretary told New Age adding that the authorities of both the countries were now working jointly to resolve the border issues, including those related to enclaves and adverse lands.
Bangladesh shares over 4,000 kilometres of borders with India.
The meeting also decided to ask India through diplomatic channels for taking steps to remove phensidyl (codeine syrup) factories from near the borders.
‘We have located phensidyl factories on the other side of the border. We will ask the Indian authorities to remove the factories to curb smuggling of the codeine syrup which is spoiling our youths,’ the home minister said.
State minister Shamsul Haque Tuku, BDR director general and officials from the foreign and land ministries, among others, attended the meeting.
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