Retired Brigadier General M Sakhawat Hussain, Home Advisor to the interim government of Bangladesh, has made an inflammatory statement.
He said on Tuesday that the days of Border Guard Bangladesh soldiers showing their backs on the country’s border with India are over.
Sakhawat visited the Border Guard Hospital to see the BGB members injured during the anti-reservation student agitation.
He then told reporters, ‘They (Sheikh Hasina’s previous government) instructed forces like BGB to show their backs at the border.
They (Indian forces) forced the BGB to hold a flag meeting. I told them not to show their backs. Enough is enough. Those days are over.’
According to the report, General M Sakhawat Hossain alleged that India’s Border Security Force killed people who entered Bangladesh territory.
“They had turned the forces, including the police, Rapid Action Battalion and Ansar, into demons. Thank God, they could not do the same to the Bangladesh Army. We have banned them from doing so,” the home adviser said in an apparent reference to the ousted government of Sheikh Hasina.
Sheikh Hasina fled to India amid the rebellion
It is known that Sheikh Hasina fled to India on August 5 amid a massive rebellion against her. Sekhawat said, ‘The national force is not anyone’s personal force.
I will try to bring them to justice at home and abroad. I have already taken some action against those who have demonised the police force.’
More than 230 people have been killed in incidents of violence that broke out across Bangladesh after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5.
This takes the total number of deaths in the violence since anti-quota protests first began in mid-July to 560.
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