Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government on Wednesday protested at the killing of Bangladeshi national Md Kamal Hossain by Indian Border Security Force along the border area in Cumilla.
Kamal hailing from Sadar South upazila in Cumilla district was shot dead by the Border Security Force of India on October 7.
In a note sent to the Indian high commission in Dhaka, the foreign affairs ministry expressed serious concern that despite repeated commitments from the authorities concerned of India to bring down border killings to 鈥榸ero level鈥�, such incidents by the BSF continued to recur.
鈥楾he 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,鈥� said a foreign ministry release.
It said that Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government called upon the Government of India to stop recurrence of such heinous acts and conduct enquiries into all the border killings, as also identify those responsible and bring them to justice.
