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Sept 23,2010
Dhaka: Bangladesh on Thursday asked the Indian border guards to use alternatives to firearms to avoid deaths of innocent Bangladeshi people as a key conference of top officials of BSF and BDR started on Thursday.
Home Minister Shahara Khatun made the call in a meeting with Raman Shrivastava, chief of the Border Security Force (BSF), at her office, home secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder told reporters after the meeting.
In reply, the BSF chief assured her to consider alternatives to bullets.
"We are considering whether something else can be used instead of bullets," Shrivastava said.
Sikder said the BSF authorities were also requested to ensure that no member of the Khashia community or other Indian nationals move along the border with arms.
Meanwhile, the BSF also asked Bangladesh to stop the movement of people along the border at night.
Both India and Bangladesh have frequently accused each other of firing on civilians from across the border.
BSF has said it has often been forced to resort to firing along the porous border to ward off criminals and infiltrators including terrorists, especially during the night time who seek to cross into India.
A rights group on Tuesday said some 875 Bangladeshi nationals were shot dead allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Bangladesh-India border from January 2000 to August 31 this year.
PTI
Home Minister Shahara Khatun made the call in a meeting with Raman Shrivastava, chief of the Border Security Force (BSF), at her office, home secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder told reporters after the meeting.
In reply, the BSF chief assured her to consider alternatives to bullets.
"We are considering whether something else can be used instead of bullets," Shrivastava said.
Sikder said the BSF authorities were also requested to ensure that no member of the Khashia community or other Indian nationals move along the border with arms.
Meanwhile, the BSF also asked Bangladesh to stop the movement of people along the border at night.
Both India and Bangladesh have frequently accused each other of firing on civilians from across the border.
BSF has said it has often been forced to resort to firing along the porous border to ward off criminals and infiltrators including terrorists, especially during the night time who seek to cross into India.
A rights group on Tuesday said some 875 Bangladeshi nationals were shot dead allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Bangladesh-India border from January 2000 to August 31 this year.
PTI
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