The border killing fields separating India and Bangladesh

On the night of May 31, near Sadipur in Jashore’s Sharsha upazila, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel found a section of the border fence cut open. On the far side stood more than a dozen people, among them women and children, driven to the spot by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) and told to start walking. The BGB turned them back. A flag meeting was convened between the two forces, but nothing was resolved. The desperate group spent the night in the strip of mud and wire that officials politely refer to as no man’s land. That image — families stranded between two nations that each refuse to claim them — says more about the present state of India-Bangladesh relations than any joint statement will. And it is no longer an isolated incident.

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