Killing continues unabated
Almost every alternate day a poor Bangladeshi is killed by the BSF (Border Security Force) of India. Despite flag meetings, inter-ministerial meetings, the killing continues unabated. As reported by the media most of these unfortunate people are either cattle traders or poor farmers, living far below poverty line. Bangladesh is all surrounded by India except for in the south. There is all probability that a Bangladeshi living in the border area may venture into India knowingly or unknowingly. In the event of such an incident the BSF can easily scare them off by firing blank shots into the air. Life is dear to everybody, I am sure no one would like to get killed in this manner.
Is there any statistics of how many Bangladeshis have so far been killed? Is it possible to know how many people have been killed from 1947 to 1971 and from 1971 to 2010? The apparent situation is such that Bangladesh has lost the moral to protest such incidents of killing.
It is a shame for the nation, whose citizens are getting killed on a regular basis by the neighbouring giant and the people keep on watching their movies, television channels, importing their goods and commodities and so on, as if rewarding them for their act of killing.
I fail to understand why the so-called human rights organisations do not come forward and protest these killings as extra-judicial killings and take necessary steps to stop such act of killing, whereas they are so vocal in protesting the cross-fire incidents of the peace keeping forces of the country as extra-judicial killings.
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