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In July 2009, Channel 4 News reported that hundreds of Indians and Bangladeshis were killed by the BSF along the Indo-Bangladeshi border fence during its construction. The BSF state that the fence's main purpose is to check illegal immigration and to prevent cross-border terrorism . [ 24 ]
Bangladesh has protested the construction of the barrier, claiming that the construction of a fence within 150 yards of the international border was a gross violation of the Indo-Bangladeshi Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Peace. [32]
Felani and her father, Noor Islam, were returning to Bangladesh after residing in Assam, India, without valid travel documents. [2] The incident was captured in a photograph that showed her body suspended on the barbed-wire border fence. The image, which was widely circulated, became a focal point in discussions about border enforcement ...
Early on Thursday, about 300 Bangladeshis had assembled at a border point near India's Jalpaiguri district but dispersed later. Indian media showed Indian border troops around a group of people there.
On 7 January 2011, a 15-year-old girl, Felani, was shot dead while illegally entering Bangladesh from India by the BSF in Phulbari Upazila, Kurigram. [12] She had gotten stuck in the barbed wire when she was shot and she remained there for 5 hours until she bled to death. [4]
Bangladesh has ramped up vigilance at its border with Myanmar, with at least 18,000 Rohingya Muslims crossing over in recent months to escape escalating violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine state ...
Hindu Sangharsh Samity were holding anti-Bangladeshi protests for several days in Agartala, the capital of the Northeast Indian state of Tripura which shares a border with Bangladesh. [2] On 2 December 2024, at around 2 p.m. IST , members of the organisation appeared at the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in Agartala and entered its ...
Bangladesh protested that construction of the fence within 150 yards of the border was a gross violation of the Indo-Bangladeshi Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Peace. [38] The Bangladesh government also protested frequent BSF incursions into Bangladesh, and shootings which resulted in the deaths of Bangladeshi citizens inside Bangladeshi ...