Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) has given condition to release abducted BGB naik Abdur Razzak.
The Myanmar border force said it would release Razzak if Bangladesh accepts 554 migrants rescued in Myanmar coast last month.
Teknaf BGB 42 Commander Lt Col Abjar Al-Jahid said BGP Battalion 2 Commander in Maungdaw Thi Han gave the condition during telephone conversations on Monday.
BGP claimed that the 554 trafficking victims are Bangladeshis. However, BGB assured Myanmar that Bangladesh would bring the migrants back if they are identified as Bangladeshis after verification.
The BGB Naik along with his SMG was abducted by Myanmar’s Border Guard Police in the Naf River near Jadimura area of Teknaf border in Cox’s Bazar on June 17. In the incident another Border Guard Bangladesh member Biplob was shot.
The BGB protesting Razzak’s captivity on Friday sent an e-mail and fax messages to Myanmar.
The Foreign Ministry of Bangladesh also summoned Myanmar Ambassador to Dhaka Myo Mint Than on Thursday to protest shooting on the border and abduction of Razzak.
This is the second such incident since the Myanmar authorities abolished its Nasaka force in July 2013 and deployed the Border Guard Police.
One year ago, on May 28, 2014, another BGB naik named Mizanur Rahman was allegedly abducted and killed by the Myanmar frontier force near the Paanchhari border in Naikkhongchhari of Bandarban district.
Two days later, the BGP was supposed to return Mizanur’s body to the BGB. But, when the Bangladeshi border guards went to receive the body, the BGP men opened fire on them instead of handing over the body.
BGB said Naik Mizanur was patrolling the border to check Rohingya infiltration.
The nearly 271-km border between Bangladesh and Myanmar is divided into two parts – 64-km zero line boundary on the Naf River and a 208-km land boundary.