The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday protested the killing of a Bangladeshi national by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF).
Md. Kamal Hossain, hailing from Sadar South upazila, Comilla district, was shot and killed by BSF on Monday, the foreign ministry said.
In the protest note sent to the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh expresses serious concern that despite repeated commitments from the concerned authorities of India to bring down border killings to ‘zero level’, such incidents by the BSF continue to recur.
The government of Bangladesh stressed that such incidents of border killing are undesirable and unwarranted; and such actions are in violation of the provisions of the Joint Indo-Bangladesh Guidelines for Border Authorities, 1975.
Bangladesh calls upon the government of India to stop the recurrence of such heinous acts and conduct enquiries into all the border killings, as also identify those responsible and bring them to justice.
The BSF has killed 31 Bangladeshis in 2023, with 28 of these fatalities resulting from gunfire, according to Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK), a human rights organization.
It says the total number of Bangladeshis killed by the BSF from 2009 to 2022 stands at 563.