Dhaka Protests Felani Murder by BSF

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Dhaka formally protests Felani's murder | Bangladesh | bdnews24.com

Dhaka formally protests Felani's murder
Mon, Jan 17th, 2011 6:39 pm

Dhaka, Jan 17 (bdnews24.com) – Dhaka has protested the killing of an innocent girl by the Border Security Force of India along the Kurigram border on Jan 7.

A note verbale protesting the killing was handed over to Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Rajeet Mitter at the foreign ministry on Sunday when he met acting foreign secretary Mostafa Kamal.

The girl, 'Felani', was shot dead by BSF at Anantapur while she was returning to Bangladesh with her father as her marriage had been settled with a local boy.

The Indian diplomat assured the acting foreign secretary of conveying the concerns of the Bangladesh government to Indian authorities and taking necessary actions to prevent recurrence of such inhuman acts along the border.

Home minister Shahara Khatun on Sunday also protested the killing and said it would be discussed at a home secretary-level meeting with India this month.

Meanwhile, a writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking trial of those who failed to protest the killing of 'Felani.

National Forum for Protection of Human Rights filed the petition on Monday with the bench of justices Mohammad Miftah Uddin Choudhury and Jahangir Hossain.

The petition seeks directives to stop killing of Bangladeshis along the border and compensate 'Felani's family. The court will hear the petition on Jan 23.

According to a human rights organisation, Odhikar, BSF kills one Bangladeshi every four days. It also claims that 74 Bangladeshis were killed, 72 injured and 43 abducted in 2010.

 

[Paan Singh]

killing is wrong but its amazing that ppl who does migrate knows that they would be killed by bsf but still they try to do this.
both countries must ensure that their ppl live in their respective countries

 

[integra]

Well I didn't bother to make a new thread but some interesting moves across the border

India to provide BSF non-lethal weapons

(bdnews24.com) - India's Border Security Force is providing non-lethal weapons to its personnel after human rights organisations accused it of being trigger-happy and killing innocents on the country's border with Bangladesh.

The BSF personnel deployed on the India-Bangladesh border in northeastern Indian state of Tripura will soon be provided with 10 non-lethal guns to fire rubber bullets on the infiltrators, smugglers and miscreants.

Highly-placed sources in the Indian government in New Delhi said that additional non-lethal guns would be provided to the BSF personnel guarding the country's border with Bangladesh in the states of Assam and West Bengal in phases.

Altogether 856 kilometres of the total 4023 kilometre border between India and Bangladesh are in Tripura.

New Delhi's move to provide the BSF with non-lethal weapons has come at a time when Dhaka is all set to strongly protest against frequent firing by Indian border guards on innocent citizens of Bangladesh.

Home Minister Shahara Khatun on Sunday said that home secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikdar would ask his Indian counterpart G K Pillai this week to restrain the BSF from killing citizens of Bangladesh.

Sikdar and Pillai are likely to meet in Dhaka on Wednesday and Thursday.

The BSF's allegedly trigger-happy attitude on the India-Bangladesh border has come under focus once again after its soldiers fired upon and killed a 15-year-old Bangladeshi girl 'Felani,' at Anantapur in Fulbari upazila, on Jan 7.

Felani and her father Nurul Islam Nuru, who hailed from Banarbhita village of Nageshwari in Bangladesh and worked in Delhi for almost 10 years, were returning home for her marriage with a local youth.

Nuru managed to cross the barbed wire fence on the border with the aid of a ladder, but Felani could not do so as her clothing got entangled in the barbed wire. When she screamed, the BSF soldiers shot her dead and later took away her body, which was later returned to the Bangladesh Rifles the next day.

The incident once again prompted human rights organisations to slam the BSF for human rights violations.

Odhikar, one of the rights groups, alleged that a total of 74 Bangladeshis were killed and 72 others injured by the BSF in the past one year.

New York-based Human Rights Watch brought out a report last month titled 'Trigger Happy,' alleging that the BSF were killing people with impunity on the Bangladesh-India border. The report alleged that over 900 people had been killed over the past 10 years along India's border with Bangladesh in West Bengal alone.

West Bengal has an approximately 2216.7 kilometre border with Bangladesh.

Dhaka has been repeatedly conveying its displeasure over the BSF's excesses to New Delhi. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina too had taken it up with her counterpart Manmohan Singh during her visit to New Delhi in January last year.

"While recognising the need to check cross border crimes, both Prime Ministers agreed that the respective border guarding forces exercise restraint, and underscored the importance of regular meetings between the border guarding forces to curtail illegal cross border activities and prevent loss of lives," read the joint statement issued after the Hasina-Singh meeting in New Delhi.

Highly-placed sources in New Delhi said that the non-lethal guns and rubber bullets were being provided to the BSF soldiers to help them deter the infiltrators, smugglers and miscreants without unnecessarily taking lives.

Sources said that the BSF would also be provided with choppers to step up surveillance along the Bangladesh-India border.



I hope they become a little bit civilized.

 

[fallstuff]

Its politics. Once the elections are over, AL will go mute again.

 

[SEAL]

Bengali people must respond with bullets otherwise these rats will continue to kill your people.

 

[Domain]

The BSF's allegedly trigger-happy attitude on the India-Bangladesh border has come under focus once again after its soldiers fired upon and killed a 15-year-old Bangladeshi girl 'Felani,' at Anantapur in Fulbari upazila, on Jan 7.

Felani and her father Nurul Islam Nuru, who hailed from Banarbhita village of Nageshwari in Bangladesh and worked in Delhi for almost 10 years, were returning home for her marriage with a local youth.

Shame on Bangladesh for Child Marraige.

 

[KS]

Dont cross the border, there will be no killing.

Try to cross the border,you are doing it at your own risk.

As simple as that.

 

[saleen_s7]

Shame on Bangladesh for Child Marraige.

yes, your bsf rapes this 15 year olders.

 

[Domain]

yes, your bsf rapes this 15 year olders.

Crap.

Rape is defined as Sex without consent or with a Minor(even with Consent).

In this case, the poor girl was 15 Year Old and she was being put into something which she could never understand.

Anyways the Bangladeshi man would have Raped her for sure.

BSF Rapes the Illegal Migrants be it you or Shaikh Hasina.

 

[true_indian]

Crap.

Rape is defined as Sex without consent or with a Minor(even with Consent).

In this case, the poor girl was 15 Year Old and she was being put into something which she could never understand.

Anyways the Bangladeshi man would have Raped her for sure.

BSF Rapes the Illegal Migrants be it you or Shaikh Hasina.

Buddy, that was really in a bad taste. That's low for anyone no matter which side of the border you are on.

 

[desioptimist]

BD members, we dont pick bangladeshis to kill, when they cross. The same courtesy is extended to pakistanis too. It has to do with fear of terrorism(and other activities such as counterfeiting, drug trafficking, human trafficking). Illegal migrant is a hot political issue in NE, and GOI does not want to alienate them anymore.

Once you are inside, there is no way to track you. You will get ration card, voter id card etc, and it is very difficult to deport you.

Majority of bangladeshis, (at leaast who I have met), are not here for any bad activity. I know it is economic migration. But illegal immigration has to be dealt with.

I am in the favor of most human approach possible. If we can stop it without even firing rubber bullets, it will be much better.

 

[Domain]

Buddy, that was really in a bad taste. That's low for anyone no matter which side of the border you are on.

In the Books of Bangladeshis, I don't What do they mean by Rape?

In the above Context, It was taking Appropriate Action.

 

[fallstuff]

Crap.

Rape is defined as Sex without consent or with a Minor(even with Consent).

In this case, the poor girl was 15 Year Old and she was being put into something which she could never understand.

Anyways the Bangladeshi man would have Raped her for sure.

BSF Rapes the Illegal Migrants be it you or Shaikh Hasina.

Bad move on your part.

 

[idune]

Indo-Awami farcial show:

Right after Felani here is another Bangladeshi farmer tortured and killed by BSF.

::Welcome to Daily Naya Diganta::

 

[tallboy123]

It's not only Bsf kill infiltrators from bangladesh...
But on the Indo-pakistani border,but there BSF butchers and Kills those terrorists like dogs trying to infiltrate the border...

Rules applies for everyone..

The rules r simple
U cross the border,u get killed..

U don't cross the border,u'r safe..

As for the terrorists,Anywhere ur, u should be smothered to death...