he outskirt encounter among India and Bangladesh, which could winding wild, closes following transactions at the conciliatory level, however the murdering of 15 Border Security Force work force leaves an intense trail.
KALYAN CHAUDHURI
THE trading of flame on the Meghalaya-Assam-Bangladesh outskirt, which started in the small long periods of April 15, stopped on April 19 following arrangements at the political level among Bangladesh and India. A joint banner gathering was likewise held between the field leaders of the two outskirt powers, the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), in the irritated fringe territories. The BDR troops, who had laid attack to Pyrdiwah, 85 km from Shillong on the Meghalaya-Bangladesh outskirt, pulled back from the town to reestablish existing conditions risk.
Over the span of the outskirt conflicts, 15 BSF jawans, abducted by the BDR from Boroibari in Assam's Mankachar segment on April 18, were executed. Their bodies were come back to the BSF on April 20 at the Boroibari point on the Indo-Bangladesh fringe, 6 km from Assam's Mankachar town, which saw overwhelming shelling amid the conflicts. V.K. Gour, the Inspector-General of the BSF who is accountable for the BSF troops in the northeastern outskirt States, asserted that his men had been killed "cold blood" and not in a fringe conflict. The bodies were so seriously damaged that the BSF officers at first declined to acknowledge them. Just seven bodies could be distinguished as those of BSF men. The rest were distorted to the point of being indistinguishable.
THE Assam-Meghalaya-Bangladesh fringe has for long been a delicate zone. As per reports, on April 15, three brigades including 3,000 men of the BDR and the Bangladesh Army possessed the Pyrdiwah station, held by the BSF. The Bangladesh side asserted that the Indians had been in unlawful control of the town since Bangladesh's freedom following the war against Pakistan in 1971. It was an unwritten assention between the two nations that India would keep up a BSF station in the town, which is one of the 112 Indian enclaves (chits) in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has 32 such chits in India. Amid the 1971 Bangladesh War, Indian security powers utilized the land to prepare the Bangladeshi Mukti Bahini, who were battling the Pakistani Army. After its freedom, Bangladesh asserted some authority to the region. Following this, the Indian specialists set up a BSF station and the lethargic town before long transformed into a potential fight zone between the BSF and the BDR.
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