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Bangladesh and India- Two independent and sovereign countries. Bangladesh and India share 4,098 kilometer porous border. But lots of grave abuses are being occurred everyday by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) against Bangladeshi citizens at the border area, even in the Bangladesh territory. The abuses include indiscriminate killing and torture of the innocent Bangladeshi citizens.

► Here is some information for you-

1. Over the past 10 years India's Border Security Force (BSF) killed more than 1,010 innocent Bangladeshi citizens.

2. Statistics shows India’s BSF kill one Bangladeshi citizen in every four days. They have turned the border area into a killing field. 203 people lost their lives in BSF firing near the border between 2009 and 2011.

3. More than thousand Bangladeshi citizens have been tortured by India’s BSF since 2001. The statistics are- Tortured- 1007, Abducted- 974, Missing from border area- 107, Raped- 14, Snatched or looted- 71, Pushed in Bangladesh illegally- 313.
The grand total Human rights violation in Bangladesh-India Border Area (2001-2011) - 3509
(Source- www.odhikar.org/Upload%20statistics/Border.pdf)

4. Recently India’s BSF have introduced new methods of killing Bangladeshi citizens at the border like Throwing stones, Drowning under river water, Beating, Chopping or Injecting toxic poisons instead of using Firearms.

5. The border has long been crossed routinely by local people for trade and commerce, by relatives and friends separated by a line arbitrarily drawn by the British during partition in 1947. But it has been now common and regular picture that the India’s BSF personnel surround the Bangladeshi citizens who go near to the border fence and without giving any reason they start beating with rifle butts, kicking and slapping them.

► Example of some brutality of the Indian Border Security Forces out of thousands:

1. Felani, a 15 years old Bangladeshi girl who was crossing the Bangladesh-India border in Kurigram was killed by India's Border Security Forces. The girl screamed for water for long time while hanging upside down (in the picture, upper left), trapped on the border fence after being shot. The girl bled to death while hanging and she still had to hang exactly in the same manner for 5 more hours. (January 7, 2011)

2. Not having just a mobile phone, torchlight and a thousand rupees as bribe demanded by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) almost cost the life of a Bangladeshi named Habibur Rahman (22). Stripping him completely, the BSF tied his hands at the back to a stick (in the picture, upper right). They also tied his legs and beat him up before dumping his unconscious body in a mustard field near Raninagar camp in Murshidabad district. (Dec 9, 2011)
The video footage of this BSF torture had been aired by different television channels. HERE IS THE LINK OF THAT VIDEO- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGvsIECMs-s

3. India’s BSF killed a Bangladeshi citizen by throwing stones at the border in Lalmonirhat district in Bangladesh. After killing him, they kept the dead body in the river tying with a bamboo stick. Consider the way! Is it a human or an animal being hauled away? Killing a person with throwing stones just because of crossing the border!!! (July 24, 2011)

4. A 13-year-old boy named Abdur Rakib, who broke no law and was killed simply because he was near the border fence. He was shot as he was grazing his buffaloes near the border when a BSF soldier opened fire. Another boy, Mohammad Omar Faruq, age 15, was deadly injured. (March 13, 2009)

5. Monirul Islam, a 23-year-old Bangladeshi citizen was killed by India's BSF at the Chulkani Bil, which is 200 yards inside Bangladesh territory. The BSF started shooting at him from the no man’s land. Can anyone imagine being killed in his own territory by the force of the other country without any war? (January 8, 2010)
(More in an 81-page report of the Human Rights Watch- http://www.hrw.org/node/94641)

Many promises and assurance were made by the Indian officials, but not single one was kept. The Indian Government always kept quite. Not a single word about the death could be heard from the mouth of the honorable Indian Prime Minister. No one has been prosecuted for any of these killings, in spite of evidence in many cases that makes it clear the killings were in cold blood against unarmed and defenseless local residents.

Therefore, we the Bangladeshi citizens can no longer trust India and are making our petition to the highest authority of the world, The United Nations, to enforce international laws and conventions in this human rights matter.

Please, help us. We are not animal, we are human. We want to feel the happiness and safety of life of human being.

On behalf of the citizens of the Bangladesh-

Bangladesh Cyber Youth Association (BDCYA).
Email- bdcya@yahoo.com
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