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Two Bangladeshis were subjected to torture by Border Security Force (BSF) at the Kolarowa border of Satkhira district

Between 1.00 and 4.00 am on January 28, 2009, Alamgir Hossain (20), son of Abdul Aziz from the village of Keragachi, of Kolarowa, Satkhira, and Puto Hossain Pintu (16), son of Abdur Rashid, were bringing cattle from India. As they were crossing a field named Tarali inside India, they were arrested by BSF members. After […]

March 28, 2009 | Read full story | Comments are closed

Trespass of BSF member through Panchagarh border line : 3 Bangladeshi citizens killed and 1 Injured by bullet shots

On the 16th of November 2008, at around 9:15 at night, a BSF member from Nayabari’s BOP of India, illegally entered into 200 yards of Bangladesh territory through the southern region of Moyna Kuri village in Tetulia upazilla of Panchagarh, between main border pillar no. 434 and sub-pillar 5 and main pillar no. 435. The […]

January 1, 2009 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

BDR officers Abdul Hannan and Krishnapada Pal shot and killed by BSF at Chapainawabganj

On the night of July 17, 2008, a speedboat and an engine-run boat of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) crossed the border near Roghunathpur of Shibganj, Chapainawabganj, one and a half kilometres into Bangladesh on the Padma river shared by Bangladesh and India. At around 11.45 pm, when a patrol boat of Bangladesh Rifles […]

September 18, 2008 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) killed 3 people in Thakurgaon border

It was reported that on 30 January 2008 Moshir Uddin (27), Ataur Rahman (26) and Shahidul Islam (20) were killed by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Bangladesh-India border at Baliadangi upazilla1 in Thakurgaon district. Thakurgaon-BSF killed people-Fact Finding Report-2008  (full text in English, PDF) Thakurgaon-BSF killed people-Fact Finding Report-2008 (full text in Bangla, PDF) […]

April 1, 2008 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

Three persons including a BDR personnel injured during shooting by BSF at the Birampur border of Dinajpur

Three persons including a BDR personnel injured during shooting by BSF at the Birampur border of Dinajpur On January 29, 2008, three persons, Md. Tofajjal Hossain Tofa (25), Md. Nurul Islam (45) and BDR officer Latukhan were injured after being fired upon by the BSF at the Kochpara border located between South Damodorpur of Birampur, […]

March 29, 2008 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }

17 persons were killed by law enforcers in February 2007

According to the documentation of Odhikar, on human rights violations which occurred during 01 to 28 February 2007, as many as 17 persons were killed by the law enforcement agencies. Of them, 9 were killed by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), 5 by police, 1 by the army, 1 by joint forces and 1 by […]

March 1, 2007 | Read full story | Comments { 0 }