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A meeting of the Joint Advisory Commission (JCC) at the ministerial level later this month recommended that the ministry halt onion exports and vigorously protest the slaughter of Bangladeshis at the border.
The issue was discussed at a committee meeting held in the parliament building on Sunday. Although there was talk of a closed-door meeting on India-Bangladesh relations, it did not happen. The committee said the matter will be discussed after the JCC meeting.
After the meeting, the committee chairman, Muhammad Farooq Khan, told bdnews24.com: “The JCC meeting will be held on September 29. India is our friend. But by some actions the relationship is being ruined. I work very hard to develop the relationship and the relationship is ruined by the little onion.
“It just came to our notice then. To close abruptly and then repent, what kind of behavior is this?”
The onion market in the country has become uncontrollable like last year, as India stopped exporting. As of last Friday, Indian onions are selling for Rs 60 to Rs 70 and domestic onions between countries at Rs 60 retail.
The government of Bangladesh has asked India to resume onion exports in a hurry. The Foreign Ministry made the call in a letter to the Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka on Tuesday.
Later, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said that India’s Foreign Ministry “regretted” the matter.
Meanwhile, at the JCC meeting, the parliamentary committee advised Bangladesh to take firm action to stop border killings.
After the meeting, Farooq Khan highlighted the conference of the border guards of the two countries and said: “The last two days have been good meetings. I’ve seen ten such good meetings. Ten meetings said the killings at the border would stop, but they did not. These must be said emphatically. We want these out. You have to say it out loud. “
The incident of killing a Bangladeshi in BSF shooting on the Bangladesh-India border is always up for discussion.
Murders at the border decreased a few years ago after India promised to do so amid criticism from the international community, but recently it has risen again.
The conference of the border guard chiefs of the two countries, which ended on Saturday, also assured India that killings would drop to zero.
According to the Human Rights Law and Arbitration Center (ASAC), at least 39 Bangladeshis have been killed in violence across Bangladesh’s borders in the past eight and a half months. Of these, 32 were killed by members of the BSF. Five people died after being physically abused by members of BSF.
During this time, last year (January-September), 26 Bangladeshis were killed by BSF shooting or torture at the border.
In the past five years, murders at the border have decreased in 2016, but have tripled in 2019.
Another statistic from the organization shows that 158 Bangladeshis have died at the border in the five years from 2015 to 2019.
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