Rights watchdog Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) said a total of 35 Bangladeshis were killed and 22 others injured by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in between January to November of this year.
Meanwhile, experts are batting for engaging the United Nations and other global platforms to get justice for border killings and torture against innocent Bangladeshis as long as bilateral talks are failing.
In border 22 were abducted while 6 were tortured to death during January to November of this year, said rights body in its report. According to a local independent rights body, 43 Bangladeshis were either shot dead or tortured to death by the Indian BSF in 2019. Of the 43 Bangladeshis, 37 were shot dead and six others tortured to death in 2019, said the ASK in its report.
ASK data shows that the number of deaths was 14 in 2018, 24 in 2017, 30 in 2016, 46 in 2015, 32 in 2014, and 26 in 2013.
Earlier on December 15, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said that the Bangladesh side would also re-convey its concern over India’s Border Security Force (BSF) actions claiming lives of Bangladeshis along with the frontier areas while “such kind of tragic incidents still occur sporadically.” “It’s unfortunate [and] we must have an explanation on that [from Indian side],” he said.
Earlier on December 20, the opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP) alleged that the Bangladesh-India border had turned into a "horrific killing ground in South Asia." "The Bangladesh-India border is now the bloodiest one in the world due to the knee-jerk foreign policy of the government that came to power without votes. The Bangladesh-India border has now become one of the deadliest killing grounds in South Asia,” said BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi while speaking at a press conference at the party's Naya Paltan central office.
However, experts and human rights activists suggested Bangladesh engage the United Nations and other international forums mount pressure on India over killing of Bangladeshis by BSF.
Recently Human right activist Nur Khan Liton, told the media suggesting Bangladesh engage the United Nations and other global platforms to get justice for border killings and torture against innocent Bangladeshis as long as bilateral talks are bearing no fruit since independence of Bangladesh.
While talking to The Business Post, ASK’s Senior Deputy Director of Legal Aid Unit, Advocate Nina Goswami “It is important to engage international organisations to minimise border killing but as India is our neighbour so we’ve to solve this problem through discussion as well.”
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