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BGB chief terms cattle smuggling ‘main reason behind border killings’
RAJSHAHI, June 30, 2019 (BSS) – The incidents of border killings will come
down to zero level if cattle smuggling through the Bangladesh-India border
ends, said Border Guard (BGB) Director General (DG) Maj Gen Md Shafeenul
Islam.
“Cattle smuggling is the main reason behind border killings, and cattle
smuggling should be stopped for coming down border killings,” the BGB DG said
at a press briefing at the Battalion Headquarters of BGB 1 in Rajshahi after
attending its 224th founding anniversary celebration today.
BGB Chief said, “We cannot expect a single killing of Bangladeshi national
along the borders. Concerted efforts of all quarters including law-enforcing
agencies, people residing along the border areas and public representatives
have become crucial to end the border killing.”
Responding to a question, DG Shafeenul Islam said the border surveillance
technology is very much effective to ensure peace and security along the
border through combating border-related crimes.
BGB has used technological device for ensuring better border management,
which eventually will help combating crimes along the border area, he said.
‘We have identified around 350 kilometres borderlines with India and
Myanmar as sensitive and vulnerable,’ said the BGB Chief. In the first phase,
installation work of ‘Border Surveillance and Response System’ along seven
kilometre sensitive area of Patuatuli in Jessore has been completed.
A communication network equipped with thermal camera, video camera, rudder
and sensor-connected various instruments was set up there, he told the
journalists.
Currently, installation work of the system along 10-kilometre border area
of Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar is underway. “We are very much hopeful about
completion of the modern system along remotest borderlines in Cox’s Bazar,
Naogaon, Dinajpur and Chapainawabganj districts in the coming years,” he
added.
“As we have manpower shortage to manage the large border manually, we are
giving more emphasis on the modern system,” he also said.
‘We are committed to combat trafficking of drugs, human and children,’ Maj
Gen Islam asserted replying to a question.
He, however, said the killing in border area has been reduced significantly
by dint of cordial relation between BGB and Indian Border Security Force.
BSS/AH/MMR/RY/1745 hrs