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BSF kills Bangladeshi national in Tripura over suspected smuggling
A 20-year-old Bangladeshi national, Tara Miah, was shot dead by the Border Security Force (BSF) on Sunday in Tripura’s Unakoti district during an alleged attempt to smuggle Burmese cigarettes. The Hindustan Times…
The Story in Brief
A 20-year-old Bangladeshi national, Tara Miah, was shot dead by the Border Security Force (BSF) on Sunday in Tripura’s Unakoti district during an alleged attempt to smuggle Burmese cigarettes. The Hindustan Times reports that BSF personnel opened fire after a group of smugglers tried to attack them in the IBB area of Maguruli. Miah’s body was sent to Kailasahar hospital for postmortem. This is at least the second such death this year at the Tripura-Bangladesh border, which runs 856 km and has several unfenced patches.
The Indian Opinion
The familiar script plays out again: BSF says self-defence, Bangladesh media cries murder, and a family loses its breadwinner. Rarely does any investigation cross the border. The BSF fires, the bullet is examined, and the file is closed. What needs to be asked is not whether Tara Miah was a smuggler, he may well have been, but whether a.303 round was the only way to stop him at midnight. Until the BSF publishes body-camera footage or a joint probe with Bangladesh police becomes routine, every such death will be seen as an execution, not a deterrent.
Source: hindustantimes.com
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