Staff Reporter :
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Aziz Ahmed said that the border killings can be reduced to zero if people stop crossing the border illegally.
He, however, said mass awareness is needed in this regard.
“As many as 40 people were killed in the year 2014 on Bangladesh-India borders. It has been reduced to 33 this year,” he added.
The DG was speaking at a press conference at his office on the occasion of the third anniversary of his assumption of office on Sunday.
Aziz Ahmed also emphasized the need for stopping illegal cattle trade to reduce border killings.
He said the process of appointing at least 100 women in the paramilitary is underway. The ministry concerned had initially approved the appointment of 50 women. Later it increased the number to 100 following huge response from the employment seekers.
The force will get ‘Air Wing’ to conduct operations in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Aziz Ahmed said, adding that a meeting would be held between the BGB and the BSF on December 22 next to discuss on the border killing, human trafficking and smuggling of drugs.
At least 60 Border Outposts (BOP) will be increased in
next year while present number is 750.
He hoped that the women force would help resist the crimes in the border areas. “We are trying to set up a ‘Simanta Bank’ to serve the interests of the BGB,” the DG said.
He also mentioned that 12,000 members of the then East Pakistan Rifles (now BGB) took part in the Liberation War and of them 871 achieved the dignity of martyr.
BSS adds: The director-general of Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) Major General Aziz Ahmed said yesterday that apart from resisting militant and secessionist elements the BGB is continuously exchanging information with neighboring countries.
Responding to a question, he said, “With reduction of smuggling of phesidyl the number of casualties in the border has also come down. If the incidence of cow smuggling comes down it will go down even further.”
Elaborating, he said, the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) complain that they are physically attacked by smugglers when they conduct operations. That’s why they have to open fire. “Nevertheless we are trying to bring down the number of casualties in the border,” he added.
Replying to another question, he said “If BGB personnel were found involved in any smuggling, they, too, would be taken to task.” He told the conference that almost a hundred BGB personnel had been temporarily suspended in the last three years because of their complicity with smuggling and trafficking of women.
The BGB chief also informed the press that a hundred women had been recruited to what had been hitherto an all-male force. “Their training will commence from next month,” he said.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Aziz Ahmed said that the border killings can be reduced to zero if people stop crossing the border illegally.
He, however, said mass awareness is needed in this regard.
“As many as 40 people were killed in the year 2014 on Bangladesh-India borders. It has been reduced to 33 this year,” he added.
The DG was speaking at a press conference at his office on the occasion of the third anniversary of his assumption of office on Sunday.
Aziz Ahmed also emphasized the need for stopping illegal cattle trade to reduce border killings.
He said the process of appointing at least 100 women in the paramilitary is underway. The ministry concerned had initially approved the appointment of 50 women. Later it increased the number to 100 following huge response from the employment seekers.
The force will get ‘Air Wing’ to conduct operations in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Aziz Ahmed said, adding that a meeting would be held between the BGB and the BSF on December 22 next to discuss on the border killing, human trafficking and smuggling of drugs.
At least 60 Border Outposts (BOP) will be increased in
next year while present number is 750.
He hoped that the women force would help resist the crimes in the border areas. “We are trying to set up a ‘Simanta Bank’ to serve the interests of the BGB,” the DG said.
He also mentioned that 12,000 members of the then East Pakistan Rifles (now BGB) took part in the Liberation War and of them 871 achieved the dignity of martyr.
BSS adds: The director-general of Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) Major General Aziz Ahmed said yesterday that apart from resisting militant and secessionist elements the BGB is continuously exchanging information with neighboring countries.
Responding to a question, he said, “With reduction of smuggling of phesidyl the number of casualties in the border has also come down. If the incidence of cow smuggling comes down it will go down even further.”
Elaborating, he said, the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) complain that they are physically attacked by smugglers when they conduct operations. That’s why they have to open fire. “Nevertheless we are trying to bring down the number of casualties in the border,” he added.
Replying to another question, he said “If BGB personnel were found involved in any smuggling, they, too, would be taken to task.” He told the conference that almost a hundred BGB personnel had been temporarily suspended in the last three years because of their complicity with smuggling and trafficking of women.
The BGB chief also informed the press that a hundred women had been recruited to what had been hitherto an all-male force. “Their training will commence from next month,” he said.
