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BGB chief challenges BSF DG’s justification for border shootings
The chiefs of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have offered sharply different explanations on why BSF troops continue to open fire along the frontier, where dozens of Bangladeshis have been killed over the years. At the closing press conference of the 56th BGB-BSF director general-level border conference at Pilkhana, BSF Director General Daljit Singh Chawdhary said his forces resort to firing only as a “last measure” when intruders armed with sharp weapons attack them. He cited 35 serious injuries to BSF personnel in the first six months of this year alone. But BGB chief Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui challenged that rationale, pointing to a recent incident where BSF troops shot dead a Bangladeshi teenager...
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