Tuesday, March 20, 2012

BSF's brutality on Bangladeshi civilians


I was almost throwing up watching the YouTube video showing the inhuman and barbaric torture on a young Bangladeshi civilian by the BSF on India-Bangladesh border last month. This reminded me of the still photos of the torture on the detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq by some members of the American forces. What happened there was most inhuman that is beyond any condemnation. But that happened within the four walls of a prison. What the BSF video showed harks back to Nazi-style torture under the open sky on the India-Bangladesh border in broad daylight. Those who took part in the beastly act looked like demons. Regular killing, repression and torture of the civilians by the Indian forces in Kashmir and elsewhere in India are well documented and, so are the incidents on the Bangladesh border. Shouldn't the Indian government think seriously of psychological counselling of their security forces? The video clearly showed that the BSF personnel were taking immense pleasure in torturing and videotaping the stripped Bangladeshi national. That's undoubtedly the sign of sick minds! I am sure, any Indian worth the salt with little self-respect and human honour and dignity will feel ashamed as an Indian for so badly damaging the image of their country by such acts of their security forces, and, that too, in this instance, with the citizens of a friendly neighbour.

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