Indian Border Security Force killed two more Bangladeshis on Thursday on Lalmonirhat and Satkhira border taking the total of such killings to four in just two days. With this the number of Bangladeshis killed by BSF on the border since January 1 this year to 84.(TBT Report)

The number of Bangladeshis killed by BSF during the period from January, 2000 to November 12, 2009 rose to 84. According to UNB News Agency, BSF killed two Bangladeshi nationals along Lalmonirhat and Satkhira borders on Thursday. In Lalmonirhat, BSF men gunned down Mohammad Ali, 36, son of Ismail Hossain of Kisamat Nijjoma village in Patgram upazila, while he was entering India through Srirampur border, leaving him dead on the spot at about 6am.

In Satkhira, Habib Gazi, 18, a cattle trader and son of Lutfur Rahman Gazi of Nangla village in Devhata upazila, was found dead at Ichhamati River along Basantapur Damdam border in Kaliganj upazila Thursday. Receiving information by local people, victim's relatives recovered the body of Habib from a char of the river at noon Thursday.

Victim's family said BSF men of Barun camp detained Habib, who went to India to buy cattle four days ago, while he was returning home from India along with cattle. Local sources said BSF men dumped the body of Habib at the river after killing him. The body bore injury marks.

According to statistics projected by 'Odhikar', a non-government human rights watchdog, some 62 Bangladeshi civilians were killed by the Indian BSF from January 1 to July 11 this year. It said in more than nine years between 1 January 2000 and 10 July 2009 a total of 789 people were reported killed, 846 injured and 895 abducted by the BSF.

The killings of unarmed Bangladeshis by the BSF on the border are continuing in clear violation of the spirit of good neighborliness as well as international law and despite repeated pledges by the Indian authorities to stop it. In every meeting between BSF and BDR and also between the higher level officials of the two countries, the Indian side assures that killing of Bangladeshis by its forces on the border would come to an end immediately. But this pledge is seldom implemented.