{"id":16725,"date":"2020-09-20T11:23:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T06:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16725"},"modified":"2020-09-20T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T06:23:30","slug":"bangladesh-india-agree-to-curb-border-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16725","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh, India agree to curb border killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DHAKA, Bangladesh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh and India on Saturday agreed to launch joint border patrols to curb killings and crimes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both sides have agreed to extend joint border patrolling, mass awareness programs and necessary socio-economic development activities with a view to downing the incidents of murders, injuries and attacks on unarmed civilians of both countries to zero level,&#8221; said a joint statement issued after a four-day conference attended by border forces of both countries in Bangladesh&#8217;s capital Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>A Bangladesh-based rights watchdog in a report earlier in July said that at least 25 Bangladeshi civilians were killed by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in the first half of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides also agreed to educate citizens living in the border area about international law.<\/p>\n<p>They also agreed to exchange digital photographs of smugglers and other criminals.<\/p>\n<p>They also discussed the management of barbed wire fences on borders and common rivers.<\/p>\n<p>The conference is being seen by observers as an effort to salvage ties after tensions due to a controversial citizenship register and law that could send thousands of ethnic Bengalis settled in India to Bangladesh, which is already struggling due to a Rohingya refugee wave which started in 2018 from neighboring Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>These efforts have become even more pronounced after Pakistan and China, India&#8217;s arch rivals, were reportedly cozying up with Dhaka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA, Bangladesh Bangladesh and India on Saturday agreed to launch joint border patrols to curb killings and crimes. &#8220;Both sides have agreed to extend joint border patrolling, mass awareness programs and necessary socio-economic development activities with a view to downing the incidents of murders, injuries and attacks on unarmed civilians of both countries to zero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16727,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16725\/revisions\/16727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}