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BGB active to check murder, trespassing in border areas


Published : 12 Jul 2020 09:15 PM | Updated : 07 Sep 2020 07:14 AM

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has asked the people living at the frontier villages to move with extreme caution due to an anomalous role of Indian Border Security Forces at the border. 

BGB has been advising the frontier village-people not to go near or cross the borderline to bring cow or cattle heads or to visit the vulnerable bordering areas by any means.  BGB Battalions posted on various frontiers of the Northern region of the country have been specially instructed by the higher authorities to take necessary action to check the border trespassing.

BGB higher authorities have also been learnt to instruct concerned BGB Battalions to take stern action to check infiltration of Indian citizens to Bangladesh and not to allow any Bangladeshi citizen to move near or cross the Indian borders. The instruction was issued on the backdrop of murders of several Bangladeshi citizens in BSF attack and shootings at various frontiers recently. 

At least seven Bangladeshi citizens have been learnt to be killed in BSF gun-shots in various frontiers of the country during last one month. Among them, four Bangladeshi citizens were killed in Chapainawabganj, Lalmonirhat, Thakurgaon and Naogaon frontiers in BSF shootout. 

On July-2,2020, BGB held two Indian drug peddlers from Yousufpur frontier village of Rajshahi district. In retaliation, BGB intruded into Bangladeshi territory and nabbed three Bangladeshi farmers working in their field bear the Zero line the same day. The next day, both the Bangladeshi and the Indian citizens were released after holding a flag meeting between the BGB and the BSF commanders. 

Following the incident, BGB has instructed the frontier villager to move with the extreme cautiousness. On July-6, 2020, BGB's six Company and Border Post Commanders including of Yousufpur, Kharchaka, Shibganj, Chapainawabganj and Shaheb Nagar organised several public awareness meetings with the local representative, teachers and elites. BGB also sought cooperation from the frontier village people so that no drug peddler, cow-hand and cattle-trader can cross the border anyway.  

A local source of BGB informed the murder at the frontier can not be stopped due to illegal trespassing across the border that is why advice and cooperation have been sought from the people living at the frontier villages to check border trespassing. 

Aiming to stop murder at the frontier, the government this year did not approve any frontier-cattle corridor or frontier cattle market anywhere in the country this year. As a result, the number of murder by BSF shootouts have also been decreased at the North-western frontiers of the country. 

Lieutenant Colonel Ferdous Zia Uddin Mahmud, Commander of Rajshahi-1 BGB Battalion informed, BGB always advises and instructs people living at the frontier areas to move with extreme cautiousness and by no way to cross the border. 

BGB has been controlling any border trespassing strictly so that no cattle trader or cowhand are able to trespass the border to drive back cattle heads from Indian territory during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha. BGB has also held meetings with the local people at the borders and sought their cooperation in this connection, added Lieutenant Colonel Zia Uddin Mahmud.