Take steps to end border killings

BNP yesterday urged the government to take effective steps to stop killings at the borders.

"We want an end to it (border killing). Our demand is that the government take steps immediately in this regard," Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, secretary General of the party, said while speaking at an event organised to observe the party's "black flag programme", protesting border killing.

Talking to Journalists at the party chairperson's Gulshan office, he said a total of 1,510 Bangladeshi citizens have been killed by Indian border force since 1962.

"Killing people in the border is a clear violation of human rights," he said.

Fakhrul said his party's statements are not against people or the government of India. It is the issue of security of the citizens of Bangladesh.

Regarding Rohingya crisis, Fakhrul said the government could not solve the problem. "India will remain silent, China will give veto and our government will say we have taken a great foreign policy. The government is saying so just to stay in power."

Referring to an interview of the foreign minister published in The Daily Star, Fakhrul said, "Reading the article I became skeptical as to whose foreign minister he is? Is he the foreign minister of Bangladesh or India? In the entire interview, he tried to defend India."