Posted on 01/23/2011 6:56:02 AM PST by cold start
Do good fences make good neighbours? Not along the India-Bangladesh border. Here, India has almost finished building a 2,000km fence. Where once people on both sides were part of a greater Bengal, now India has put up a "keep out" sign to stop illegal immigration, smuggling and infiltration by anti-government militants. This might seem unexceptional in a world increasingly hostile to migration. But to police the border, India's Border Security Force (BSF), has carried out a shoot-to-kill policy – even on unarmed local villagers. The toll has been huge. Over the past 10 years Indian security forces have killed almost 1,000 people, mostly Bangladeshis, turning the border area into a south Asian killing fields. No one has been prosecuted for any of these killings, in spite of evidence in many cases that makes it clear the killings were in cold blood against unarmed and defenceless local residents. Shockingly, some Indian officials endorse shooting people who attempt to cross the border illegally, even if they are unarmed. Almost as shocking is the lack of interest in these killings by foreign governments who claim to be concerned with human rights. A single killing by US law enforcement along the Mexican border makes headlines. The killing of large numbers of villagers by Indian forces has been almost entirely ignored. The violence is routine and arbitrary. Alauddin Biswas described to Human Rights Watch the killing of his 24-year-old nephew, who was suspected of cattle rustling, by Indian border guards in March 2010. "The BSF had shot him while he was lying on his back. They shot him in the forehead. If he was running away, he would have been shot in the back. They just killed him." The BSF claimed self-defence, but no weapons were recovered.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
India has almost finished building a 2,000km fence. Where once people on both sides were part of a greater Bengal, now India has put up a "keep out" sign to stop illegal immigration, smuggling and infiltration by anti-government militants.
Only because the headline writers have no interest in subverting the Indian government at this time.
I’d contract out our Mex/US border to the Indians, anyday.
I’d contract out our Mex/US border to the Indians, any day.
“Death of one man is a tragedy. Death of a million is a statistic,” ~ Josef Stalin.
If we can get the Obama Regime to go along we want a set-aside in the Illegal Alien Quota this year so we can bring in some more guys with doctorates, etc. They'll agree to pick apples for three years just for a shot at working in their fields for 2 ~ and you won't get that kind of deal out of Mexicans!
That many deaths and they keep trying to get in?
the guardian are leftist slime. They said that this has become a “killing field” because of “1000 people killed in 10 years”, yeah, 100 folks a year killed — and we don’t know where they even got THAT figure, but you can bet that it’s inflated.
Shoot-to-kill is the only thing that will work in some cases.
when you got 4.5 million illegal immigrant involved in all sort of wrong things and a menace for india to tackle....
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