- I think their army can almost match the Kolkata traffic police in terms of firepower.

- The Bangladesh air force boasts of state-of-the-art hot air baloons from where they can drop mirchi patakas filled with sulphur to cause maximum carnage.

- The fishing boats of the navy are more than capable of chasing man-eating tigers to the Indian side of the Sundarbans so that Indian flesh could used to nourish the BD wildlife.

PS: this is just a joke. No offence meant LOL !

Nice article, though the only suggestion that I think would work is sealing borders. The need to seal the borders with Bdesh is long overdue. The other suggestions are all over-reactions. No nation imposes sanctions based upon border skirmishes (unfortunately that is what the death of the wretched soldier would be termed as).

But yes, we need to stop this gharjamai treatment and send the illegal immigrants home. An interesting view on this whole Bdesh issue came from Subramanium Swamy. His argument is, either we take over 1/3 rd of Bangladesh or they take back their immigrants. The truth is that Bangladesh was formed because Bengali muslims did not want to live with the rest of India. But now, since they have changed their minds and want to live in India, what is the point of Bangladesh keeping all the territory. It should be returned.

Regarding the border killing. I would be curious to know the other side of the picture. Are our Indian side of things on the border blemish free? I would doubt it.

http://www.hrcbm.org/disaster/index.html

Firstly thanks for the comment.

Again the statistics you tout are present *only* in Bangla papers. However the Indian side of the story is what is present in the world press—whatever little coverage they give to the sub continent.

The girl that you claim was killed by the BSF bullet was part of the cross-fire that BR engaged in to distract the BSF while two of their own were being butchered. Death of a 10 year old girl (that’s the age I saw in a bangladeshi paper) is no doubt tragic. But the girl was not a “target” of the BSF. However the 2 men were—you did not just kill them…you tortured them to death (near death in the case of the other). Please try to understand the difference.

Lastly, with respect to the figure of 377 Bangladeshi civilans killed, I honestly cannot say if it is true or not because our side says it is not and your side says it is. However there is something you people claim (I found this in the same place the 377 figure is mentioned).

And that is that BSF men fire at Bangla Rifles so that Indian civilians can infiltrate into Bangladesh—ie provide cover for “Indian refugees to Bangladesh”

Forgive my impudence but I could not help laughing.

I know, for a fact, that it is Bangladeshis who stream into India every day illegally because , face it, our economic situation is better. (I hope we are in agreement with this)

Now if blinded by your Bangla pride the Bangla press would like to delude themselves that it is the other way round, then they are free to do so.

I however am free to laugh.

In any case, we both agree that violence is never the solution to any problem. And that’s the most important thing.

I am sure you are not aware of the 377 Bangaldeshi civilians killed by BSF bullet in last 5 years. Indian government has never bothered to investigate why the BSF jawans made forays to Bangladeshi territory and rather blamed that they were dragged in this incident!

An official international probe is a logical move which is needed albeit all the diplomacies. Those who are guilty for the brutalities whould be punished and the civilian victims should be compensated.

Hateful blurts won’t achieve anything. Find the truth. Its on public domain.

Peace.