[🇧🇩] Terrorist BSF is pushing Indian Nationals into Bangladesh

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Dhaka must talk push-in globally, Indians should also raise voice

INDIA’S Border Security Force pushing people into Bangladesh not only furthers Delhi’s unneighbourly conduct but also appears a deliberate policy decision. This blatantly contravenes international laws, bilateral agreements and established border management norms. Since May 7, Indian guards have...

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Dhaka must talk push-in globally, Indians should also raise voice
16 June, 2025, 00:00

INDIA’S Border Security Force pushing people into Bangladesh not only furthers Delhi’s unneighbourly conduct but also appears a deliberate policy decision. This blatantly contravenes international laws, bilateral agreements and established border management norms. Since May 7, Indian guards have pushed at least 1,511 individuals into Bangladesh. While the majority of them had for long resided in India, a significant number of them of Rohingyas, many registered with the UNHCR in India, and even some Indians. In the latest spate on June 14, Indian guards pushed at least 54 people through five border points. Twelve Rohingyas were forced through a border point in Moulvibazar. With this, the Indian border guards have pushed at least 147 Rohingyas, mostly women and children who include 50 registered with the UNHCR in India, into Bangladesh. Sixteen more, including four Indians, were pushed in through two border points in Panchagarh, 23 through a point in Thakurgaon and 3 through a point in Lalmonirhat, as the Border Guard Bangladesh and the police say.

Bangladesh authorities have formally urged the Indian counterparts to stop push-in operations. They have further assured India that they are prepared to take back any Bangladeshis living illegally in India but only through proper legal channels and due procedures. Despite this, India appears to have ignored the overtures, showing no willingness to co-operate and continues with the push-in. This unlawful action places additional strain on already tense bilateral relations, which have been under pressure because of persistent issues, notably the continued killings of Bangladeshis along the frontiers. While Indian authorities routinely profess a commitment to honouring international laws and bilateral agreements, including the use of no-lethal weapons on the border, Indian guards have routinely violated the principles, instead following a shoot-to-kill policy. As a result, the Bangladesh-India border has become one of the deadliest in the region. According to rights group Odhikar, the Indian guards killed more than 1,300 Bangladeshis in 2000–2023. Compounding the issue, Indian border guards have recently made attempts to erect fences at several points on the no man’s land, which is a violation of bilateral agreements. The provocative acts, which occur intermittently, further erode the foundation of neighbourly relations.

Given that the actions constitute serious violations of the international law and diplomatic norms, Dhaka must take up the issue with both international and regional forums. Right-thinking citizens in India should also speak out against such aggressive and unlawful practice and call on their government to abandon such antagonistic policies.​

 

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Is 'push-in' another manifestation of Delhi’s hostile policy?

If Delhi gives an idea loud and clear to Dhaka of what kind of relationship it wants, a new era of bilateral relations may begin

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Is 'push-in' another manifestation of Delhi’s hostile policy?
Khawaza Main UddinDhaka
Published: 17 Jun 2025, 15: 27

Indian border forces BSF wanted to push in 14 persons over the Roumari border at Kurigram. Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) thwarted them. 17 May, Boraibari border Collected

No matter what history says, today’s India is forcing a section of its own population to enter into another country through land border illegally, due only to their religious belief and identity.

Muslim men and women from the neighbouring country are being pushed in to no other land than Bangladesh, where more than a million Rohingya Muslim people evicted from another neighbour, Myanmar, have been given shelter.Thus, India’s internal issue is turning into a cross-border dispute apart from the treatment of the Muslims as hostage in its domestic politics.

It cannot be believed that such a move by India’s central government of Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the crucial elections in states of West Bengal and Assam that have significant percentage of Muslim voters, is appreciated by democratic, progressive and conscientious people there?

In this phase, Delhi has taken the move to send some Indian Muslims to Bangladesh territory – it all is happening after the political changeover through the July 2024 revolution. There is no reason that the Bangladesh people will not understand that such a move conforms to Delhi’s hostile policy towards Dhaka.

New Delhi has first imposed visa restrictions for the Bangladesh people and at one stage cancelled the transshipment facility through India for Bangladesh businesses.

The Indian godi media (pro-ruling party propaganda) has also launched a campaign to spread rumours and cynicism terming as terrorist or militant activities a successful student-mass revolution that has overthrown a ruler who killed democracy. Earlier, Sheikh Hasina who fled Bangladesh in the face of popular demonstrations, was given shelter in nowhere but Delhi, without showing any sensitivity to the sentiment and emotion of the people of Bangladesh.

In such circumstances, is there any likelihood that the most critical bilateral issues such as sharing of waters of transboundary rivers, border killing, trade imbalance, and smuggling and drug trafficking will remain completely out of sight of Bangladesh?

There is no reason to believe either that the pundits outside of India and Bangladesh, or even the global citizens having a minimum level of common senses, would not be able to read mindset of the Delhiwalas and understand the objectives of their activities.

India now wants to say the people who were being pushed in are actually nationals of Bangladesh and even if many of them have been living in India for many years, they are legally not citizens of India. On making its own citizens stateless, foreign media including the BBC have run reports naming and quoting individual victims and confirmed that the Muslims who were pushed in to Bangladesh are in fact Indian nationals.

If a few of them are found to be Bangladeshi nationals travelling to India, they could have been deported lawfully with due respect. But. Dhaka has no legal obligation to accept the Indian citizens as Bangladeshis only because they are Muslims. Is Indian premier Narendra Modi’s friend Donald Trump welcoming illegal Indian immigrants to the US?

By using its minority population as pawn of chess in domestic and external policies, India as a state and civilization proves its bankruptcy and its leaders and policymakers are doing so, as part of a conscious policy decision.

The attitude of Delhi and a major section of the Indian media towards the Yunus government seemed to be attacking and demeaning when the rest of the world shows high level of respect to the Nobel Peace Price winner.

It seems that Delhi is nowhere near self-realisation about correctness of the action to push Bangladesh towards an unwanted situation, let alone making self-criticism. Rather, India’s standpoint, as well as tactics vis-à-vis Bangladesh such as maintaining hardly any communications with Professor Y8unus-led government at the state level, exposes certain anger, which has originated from the fall of a subservient ruler.

There is no logical ground for India’s anger against the Bangladesh people, instead of the possibility of the opposite. Sheikh Hasina with Delhi’s overt and covert patronisation for more than one and a half decades, had deprived the people of this country of their democratic and human rights; furthermore, the Indian authorities had made all attempts to glorify the one who was a fascist ruler.

One cannot ignore the fact that the aggrieved Bangladeshis had begun ‘boycott Indian goods’ movement immediately after the 2024 parliamentary polls Hasina won with Indian blessings, months before the demonstrations that ousted the iron lady. In such a context, Delhi’s anger against the Bangladesh people can be equated with that of an angry loser. Delhi should have rather had more anger against nuclear Pakistan and a more powerful China, the two neighbouring countries with which India had engangled into border clashes recently.

Showing flexibility to powerful countries and aggression to non-nuclear neighbour is the reflection of Chanakya Kautilya’s policy of Matsanaya according to which big fishes eat up small ones.

The rulers of Delhi have been obsessed with old policy of pre-Christ era, at a time when they should have extended olive branch to the people of Bangladesh so that there is a thaw in the deadlock in bilateral relations.

Japan, Germany and South Africa had sought apology to aggrieved parties for the misdeeds of their earlier rulers; they have not lost anything at all for their gesture.

New Delhi has no moral ground to justify the repressive acts of Hasina in the past one and a half decades. Indian authorities cannot deny that some Bangladeshi victims of enforced disappearance had been discovered in India.

The stories of enforced disappearance, mass murder and extra-judicial killing, and torture have been documented in the reports of the United Nations and human rights organisations. The world had seen what kind of national elections the Hasina regime had held in Bangladesh in 2014, 2018 and 2024.

As written in the book by former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee and reported during the Bangladesh tour of the then Indian external affairs secretary Sujatha Singh days before the 2014 elections, India’s naked interference into the domestic politics including electoral affairs of Bangladesh in favour of Hasina had hurt and humiliated political elements and conscious people in this country.

The moment Hasina’s repressive rule came to an end, India’s reaction to the political changeover in Dhaka was different from those of other countries of the civilized world. Later on, the attitude of Delhi and a major section of the Indian media towards the Yunus government seemed to be attacking and demeaning when the rest of the world shows high level of respect to the Nobel Peace Price winner ruler of Bangladesh.

Unfortunately, even during the Hasina rule – the honeymoon period of Delhi’s desired relations with Dhaka – India had not extended her support to Bangladesh – neither on the ground during the Rohingya influx into Cox’s Bazar, nor during the vote at the United Nations.

In that case, some people may draw conclusion that India does not consider Bangladesh as a friendly neighbour, unless it remains subservient to Delhi. And in accordance with Kautilya’s formula, if my enemy’s enemy is my friend, what does Iran’s status as the enemy of India’s close ally Israel stand or America’s as the enemy of Russia as a friend of India? Or, Turkey as friend of archenemy Pakistan or Bangladesh when it is a friend of China?

Both success and negative effects of ill move like human trafficking in the pursuit of foreign affairs policy are well known to India’s diplomatic and strategic analysts. That is also not unknown to the friendly countries, who are further aware of India’s relations with her South Asian neighbours.

By pushing her minority Muslim citizens in to Bangladesh, India not only sets before the global community the instance of minority repression, Delhi has also confirmed that the formation of Pakistan for the Muslim population in 1947 and Bangladesh later on – which was described by proponents of a greater post-colonial India – was justified.

When Bangladesh is heading for a truly free and fair elections, institutionalisation of democracy, completion of reforms to rebuild state institutions broken during the fascist rule, concluding the trial of the culprits of major crimes such as massacre, extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance, detention, repression, corruption, extortion, and money laundering and efforts are on to turn Bangladesh into a dignified country at the glonal stage, India has distanced herself from constructive engagement and dialogue with Bangladesh.

Despite certain pressure of public opinion and a pledge made by the interim administration to make public some of the presumably unequal treaties and agreements contrary to Bangladesh’s national interests, Dhaka has so far refrained from revealing them, perhaps to prevent further deterioration in bilateral relations.

Diplomacy demands reciprocity and it is not just any secret affair or something that is described as half-truth; if Delhi gives an idea in a loud and clear manner to Dhaka of what kind of relationship it wants to build and maintain in the coming days, the new era of bilateral relations may begin immediately.

* Khawaza Main Uddin is a journalist.​

 

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Amnesty Urges India Not to Push Rohingya into Bangladesh. Instead of pushing the Rohingya into Bangladesh, the Indian government should send the Rohingya back to Myanmar where they belong. ​

 

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Amnesty Urges India Not to Push Rohingya into Bangladesh. Instead of pushing the Rohingya into Bangladesh, the Indian government should send the Rohingya back to Myanmar where they belong. ​

Hindutva Indians are the most selfish inhuman people in the planet. They need a lesson in humility.

 

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Hindutva Indians are the most selfish inhuman people in the planet. They need a lesson in humility.

India has a huge business in the Gulf countries and Bangladesh which helps their economy but they support Israel instead of Palestine and Iran. The less I talk about India's behavior with Bangladesh the better.

 

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India has a huge business in the Gulf countries and Bangladesh which helps their economy but they support Israel instead of Palestine and Iran. The less I talk about India's behavior with Bangladesh the better.

They are pushing Rohingyas to Bangladesh. They should push them to Myanmar. Typical Hindutva behavior.

 

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12 Rohingyas among 62 more people pushed into Bangladesh by BSF

The Border Security Force of India pushed at least 62 more people, including 12 Rohingyas, into Bangladesh through different border points in Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar and Lalmonirhat districts between Monday morning and Tuesday morning.

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12 Rohingyas among 62 more people pushed into Bangladesh by BSF
Staff Correspondent 24 June, 2025, 13:19

Indian Border Security Force reportedly pushed 19 more people into Bangladesh through Sylhet border on early Tuesday. | UNB photo

The Border Security Force of India pushed at least 62 more people, including 12 Rohingyas, into Bangladesh through different border points in Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar and Lalmonirhat districts between Monday morning and Tuesday morning.

With the latest push-ins, the number of people, including Rohingyas and Indian nationals, pushed into Bangladesh by the BSF since May 7 has reached 1,617.

With the 12 Rohingyas, the Indian BSF has so far pushed at least 159 Rohingyas, including 50 registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India, into Bangladesh.

New Age staff correspondent in Sylhet reported that 19 people were pushed into Bangladesh through Jaintapur border in Sylhet district, 20 people through Chhatak border in Sunamganj, and 16 people, including 12 Rohingya refugees, through Borolekha border in Moulvibazar.

Border Guard Bangladesh 48 Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Md Nazmul Haque said that 39 people, including women and children, were pushed into Bangladesh through the Jaintapur and Chhatak borders on Tuesday.

He said that the BSF pushed 19 people into Bangladesh territory through Minatila border point under the Jaintapur upazila at about 6:30am.

‘Later in the morning, 20 more people were pushed into Bangladesh through Noyakot border point at Chhatak upazila,’ the BGB officer said.

‘Among them, 38 people hail from Kurigram district and the rest one from Pabna district,’ he said, adding that they entered India at different times for job and they had been working in separate parts of India for a long time.

On Monday, the BSF pushed 16 individuals, including 12 Rohingya refugees, through Barlekha border in Moulvibazar.

BGB 52 Battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Ariful Haque Chowdhury told New Age that the BSF pushed 12 Rohingya refugees and 4 Bangladeshis through Kumarshail border point at Shahbajpur union of Barlekha upazila at about 9:00am on Monday.

He said that a patrol team detained them immediately after they were pushed into the Bangladesh territory and handed them over to the police.

Barlekha police station officer-in-charge Abul Kashem Sarker told New Age on Tuesday that preparations were underway to send the 12 Rohingyas to the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp.

New Age correspondent in Lalmonirhat reported that seven individuals, including children, were pushed into Bangladesh through Patgram border in the district on Tuesday morning.

Nabinagar BGB camp commander Rezaul Islam said that the seven people were handed over to the Patgram police station.

Further action would be taken after verifying their identity, he said, adding that the individuals said that they hailed from Khulna district.

They claimed that they had been living in India’s Delhi for the past 35 years.​

 

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People of W Bengal being branded Bangladeshis

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said Bangla-speaking people from the state were being branded as “Bangladeshis” in some BJP-ruled states.

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People of W Bengal being branded Bangladeshis
Says Mamata, blames BJP-ruled states of persecution

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said Bangla-speaking people from the state were being branded as "Bangladeshis" in some BJP-ruled states.

She told reporters in Kolkata that she knew 300-400 Bangla-speaking migrant labourers were confined to a building in Rajasthan even after showing valid documents.

"Is it a crime to speak in Bangla -- the language of Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda among other luminaries? I think Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not aware of this development. I will draw his attention," she said.

Mamata claimed that apart from Rajasthan, such incidents also took place in BJP-ruled Delhi and Madhya Pradesh in the past.

She said West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant is taking up the issue with his counterpart in Rajasthan.

"As far as my knowledge goes, whoever arrived till 1971 is an Indian citizen," she added.

Mamata said 1.5 crore migrant workers from different states are employed in West Bengal.

"But we can never think of taking such steps which go against the spirit of pluralism of India. What if such steps are taken against migrants from other states here for speaking their mother tongue? Is talking in Bangla considered sacrilegious by BJP-ruled regimes?" she asked.

Mamata said around 22 lakh migrant workers from West Bengal are currently employed in other states.

"Will Tamil-speaking people be deported to Sri Lanka since they speak Tamil, or will, for that matter, Indians belonging to the Gorkha community be sent to Nepal for speaking in Nepali?

"I often urge people to stay back and work here, but many go outside the state in search of livelihood. Is it their crime to speak in Bangla? They carry all relevant citizenship documents," she said.

Mamata had flagged the same issue on the floor of the State Assembly last week, stating that Bangla-speaking migrants from West Bengal were deported from BJP-ruled states in Western India and pushed towards Bangladesh despite producing all citizenship proof.

"The dialect spoken by people in Bangladesh is different from the dialect spoken by Bangla-speaking Indian citizens in West Bengal. How can residents of our state be harassed in this way?" she asked.​

 

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India accused of illegal deportations targeting Muslims

India has deported without trial to Bangladesh hundreds of people, officials from both sides said, drawing condemnation from activists and lawyers who call the recent expulsions illegal and based on ethnic profiling. New Delhi says the people deported are undocumented migrants. The Hindu...

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India accused of illegal deportations targeting Muslims
Bangladesh, largely encircled by land by India, has seen relations with New Delhi turn icy since a mass uprising in 2024 toppled Dhaka’s government, a former friend of India.

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Updated: 27 Jun 2025, 18: 25

Border Security Force (BSF) women personnel patrol along the borderline fence at the India-Bangladesh border in Golakganj, Dhubri district in India’s Assam State on 26 May 2025 AFP

India has deported without trial to Bangladesh hundreds of people, officials from both sides said, drawing condemnation from activists and lawyers who call the recent expulsions illegal and based on ethnic profiling.

New Delhi says the people deported are undocumented migrants.

The Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has long taken a hardline stance on immigration -- particularly those from neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh -- with top officials referring to them as “termites” and “infiltrators”.

It has also sparked fear among India’s estimated 200 million Muslims, especially among speakers of Bengali, a widely spoken language in both eastern India and Bangladesh.

“Muslims, particularly from the eastern part of the country, are terrified,” said veteran Indian rights activist Harsh Mander.

“You have thrown millions into this existential fear.”

Bangladesh, largely encircled by land by India, has seen relations with New Delhi turn icy since a mass uprising in 2024 toppled Dhaka’s government, a former friend of India.

But India also ramped up operations against migrants after a wider security crackdown in the wake of an attack in the west -- the 22 April killing of 26 people, mainly Hindu tourists, in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Bangladesh has said India has pushed more than 1,600 people across its border since May. Indian media suggests the number could be as high as 2,500.

New Delhi blamed that attack on Pakistan, claims Islamabad rejected, with arguments culminating in a four-day conflict that left more than 70 dead.

Indian authorities launched an unprecedented countrywide security drive that has seen many thousands detained -- and many of them eventually pushed across the border to Bangladesh at gunpoint.

‘Do not dare’

Rahima Begum, from India’s eastern Assam state, said police detained her for several days in late May before taking her to the Bangladesh frontier.

She said she and her family had spent their life in India.

“I have lived all my life here -- my parents, my grandparents, they are all from here,” she said. “I don’t know why they would do this to me.”

Indian police took Begum, along with five other people, all Muslims, and forced them into swampland in the dark.

“They showed us a village in the distance and told us to crawl there,” she told AFP.

“They said: ‘Do not dare to stand and walk, or we will shoot you.’”

Bangladeshi locals who found the group then handed them to border police who “thrashed” them and ordered they return to India, Begum said.

“As we approached the border, there was firing from the other side,” said the 50-year-old.

I have lived all my life here -- my parents, my grandparents, they are all from here. I don’t know why they would do this to me.
Rahima Begum, from India’s eastern Assam state
“We thought: ‘This is the end. We are all going to die.’”

She survived, and, a week after she was first picked up, she was dropped back home in Assam with a warning to keep quiet.

‘Ideological hate campaign’

Rights activists and lawyers criticised India’s drive as “lawless”.

“You cannot deport people unless there is a country to accept them,” said New Delhi-based civil rights lawyer Sanjay Hegde.

Indian law does not allow for people to be deported without due process, he added.

Bangladesh has said India has pushed more than 1,600 people across its border since May.

Indian media suggests the number could be as high as 2,500.

The Bangladesh Border Guards said it has sent back 100 of those pushed across -- because they were Indian citizens.

People of Muslim identity who happen to be Bengali speaking are being targeted as part of an ideological hate campaign.
Harsh Mander, veteran Indian rights activist.

India has been accused of forcibly deporting Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, with navy ships dropping them off the coast of the war-torn nation.

Many of those targeted in the campaign are low-wage labourers in states governed by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), according to rights activists.

Indian authorities did not respond to questions about the number of people detained and deported.

But Assam state’s chief minister has said that more than 300 people have been deported to Bangladesh.

Separately, Gujarat’s police chief said more than 6,500 people have been rounded up in the western state, home to both Modi and interior minister Amit Shah.

Many of those were reported to be Bengali-speaking Indians and later released.

“People of Muslim identity who happen to be Bengali speaking are being targeted as part of an ideological hate campaign,” said Mander, the activist.

Nazimuddin Mondal, a 35-year-old mason, said he was picked up by police in the financial hub of Mumbai, flown on a military aircraft to the border state of Tripura and pushed into Bangladesh.

He managed to cross back, and is now back in India’s West Bengal state, where he said he was born.

“The Indian security forces beat us with batons when we insisted we were Indians,” said Mondal, adding he is now scared to even go out to seek work.

“I showed them my government-issued ID, but they just would not listen.”​