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India Border Flares up, Killings, Kidnappings, Mysterious Flight
By
IOL South Asia Correspondent
NEW
DELHI, October 4 (IslamOnline) - At least four people were killed
Thursday, October3, and eight Indian villagers abducted by Bangladeshi
"intruders" at Bishnupur, a border village in North Tripura
district, Indian police claimed today.
A
police spokesman said in one incident a group of heavily-armed
Bangladeshis entered the village of Netajipara, 200 kilometres north
of Agarthala, and went on the rampage attacking unarmed Indian
civilians.
The
north-eastern Indian state of Tripura shares a 856-kilometre-long
unfenced border with Bangladesh and the village in question is
situated about two kilometres from the frontier. The police called the
intruders "group of Bangladeshi criminals" who reportedly
encircled the village and shot dead one and kidnapped eight villagers.
India's
Border Security Force (BSF) sources said the miscreants were
accompanied by militants of the banned National Liberation Front of
Tripura, who have camps in Bangladesh. They killed one person.
Those
abducted, including a school teacher, were supporters of Tripura's
ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist). This means the incident was
not a simple case of dacoity. Rather it was of political nature by
opponents of the current government Tripura.
In
another incident in the Khowai area of west Tripura, three people,
including two Bangladeshis and an Indian, were killed in a clash.
According to a police officer, a group of Bangladeshi
"dacoits" entered the village and on being challenged, fired
upon the locals, killing one Indian villager. In retaliatory attacks,
two Bangladeshi nationals were killed by the villagers.
Tribal
chiefs in Meghalaya have urged the federal government to raise a
"people's army" of border villagers to foil alleged
intrusion attempts by Bangladesh. Police claim that heavily-armed
Bangladeshi intruders enter in big groups to indulge in looting and
ransacking of plantations on the Indian side.
According
to reports here, soldiers have been put on high alert along the border
to defuse tensions.
In
April last year, soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) entered
Pyrdiwah, a village 100 kilometres east of Shillong, and took 28
Indian BSF soldiers hostage. The forcible intrusion of Pyrdiwah led to
a bloody border skirmish that left 16 BSF and three BDR soldiers dead.
In
a related development, there was suspense over the intrusion of Indian
airspace near Bangladesh borders Thursday by an unidentified aircraft
in West Bengal's North Dinajpur district. Police and BSF personnel
scoured the pond in which the plane reportedly dropped some objects.
Reportedly the colour of the water in the pond changed as a result of
the dropping.
According
to villagers, a loud noise was heard at about 12.15 pm (0645 GMT)
Thursday and they found an aircraft flying at a low altitude towards
the Bangladesh border.
West
Bengal State Home Secretary AK Deb said that he heard that "one
or two aircraft violated our airspace and dropped something into a
pond in a village in the Chopra police station area. This is being
investigated". Deb added that there was no need to give too much
significance to the incident before the investigation was completed.
In
a similar incident on December 17, 1995, known as "Purulia
armsdrop" huge caches of arms were air dropped in Purulia in the
state of West Bengal. It is still a mystery who dropped the arms and
who was the beneficiary.
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