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BGB-BSF meet begins Sept 14

Border killing, arms smuggling top agenda

M Rahman
Border Guard Bangladesh will raise the issues of arms and phensedyl smuggling into the country and unauthorised construction by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) within 150 yards of the international boundary, in talks with the BSF beginning September 14.
The director general-level meeting will be held over five days in Dhaka.
The lingering issue of the kidnapping and killing of Bangladeshis at the border by BSF men and Indian miscreants will also be on the agenda of the government, said a source in the home ministry'.
On the other hand, the BSF will broach the deportation of a leader of the Indian separatist group United Liberation Front of Asom, Anup Chetia, now in detention in a
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Bangladeshi jail. It will also urge the Bangladesh government to act against Indian insurgent groups and destroy their hideouts in Bangladesh.
Ulfa general secretary Anup Chetia was detained in 1997. He has recently appealed the government to scrap the prayer he made seeking political asylum in Bangladesh.
In early August, the Indian authorities handed over their list of items on the agenda to Bangladesh to be discussed at the talks, according to a source in BGB.
India will also pressure Bangladesh to bring back several hundred Bangladeshi nationals who are languishing in
Indian jails even after the completion of their jail terms.
Preferring anonymity, a high official of the home ministry said BSF men were building structures in the undemarcated stretches of border areas, defying BGB's objections
Regarding the deportation of Chetia, he said that though India had indirectly mentioned it in the agenda, the issue was a political one.
The ministry official also said there was no hideout of Indian insurgents inside Bangladesh territory at present.
Barad Hossain Chowdhury, Senior Assistant Secretary of the ministry, said that around two months back India sent
a list of some 2,333 Bangladeshi detainees who were in Indian jails after serving their jail terms.
Bringing back such people is a complex matter because Rohingyas try to identify themselves as Bangladeshis, said Additional Secretar}' of the ministry ShafiquI Islam.
According to the rights body Odhikar, as many as 98 Bangladeshi nationals were killed on the border in 2009. The figure was 74 in 2010, 31 in 2011 and 38 in 2012.
Declining to make any comment on the agenda of the talks, Director General Maj Gen Aziz Ahmed of BGB said the Indian delegation led by BSF DG Subhash Joshi would arrive in Dhaka on September 14 and leave on September 18.