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Killings by BSF

MPs unhappy at foreign ministry role

Staff Correspondent
A number of lawmakers at a meeting yesterday criticised Foreign Minister Dipu Moni over her ministry's 'failure and delay' in properly addressing the issue of the killing of Bangladeshis by BSF along the border areas.
The lawmakers, members of the parliamentary standing committee on the foreign ministry, enquired about the steps taken to stop such killing incidents from recurring, meeting sources said.
Meanwhile, State Minister for Home Shamsul Haque TUku yesterday asked Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel to intensify vigilance and maintain peace to avert any untoward incidents in the border areas.
The minister made the comment before reporters following a meeting of the National Committee on preventing smuggling at the home ministry.
Asked to comment on the recent killing and torture of Bangladeshis by BSF, the state minister said, “BGB
personnel have been kept on high alert. The director general of BGB has been asked to maintain peace at any cost in the border areas."
“India has apologised for the recent incidents of torture and killing, and has taken legal action accordingly,” he added.
Contacted by The Daily Star, BGB chief Maj Gen Anwar Hossain said that against the backdrop of some recent incidents, the force had intensified vigilance along the border so that no Bangladeshi could cross the zero line illegally.
He, however, said the BGB men had not been kept in a state of alert.
After the video footage of a Bangladeshi national being assaulted by BSF men at a spot near the India-Bangladesh border was aired, sector commander level meetings were held between BGB and BSF, the BGB chief said.
In the meetings, India termed the recent incident of torture unexpected, but did not apologise, a source at BGB said.
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At yesterday's meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on foreign ministry, committee chief Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali told reporters the number of
killing incidents in border areas had declined in comparison with figures during the five-year period of BNP-Jamaat alliance government in 2001-2006.
He also said that the government had been handling the border related incidents 'properly'.
An opposition lawmaker clearly did not concur with this view. “But I told the meeting that the foreign ministry had not been projecting the killing and torture incidents by BSF before India properly,” BNP lawmaker Mahbub Uddin Khokon, a member of the committee, said.