Episode/Incident happens In Meghalaya State

“….. On May, 2001, in the early morning, around 09:00 am, a group of 10 numbers Bangladeshi villagers have been illegally intruded in our territory and have tried not only plough our agricultural land, but also have snatched and steal away our produced hardship corps.

Seeing this, our tribal village people raise protest physically, but, the notorious Bangladeshi villagers don’t pay any heed to it. Even, they threatened us that they will take away our village people as hostages if they have resist their ‘work’. Within a few minutes, instantly, the number of the Bangladeshis start to bulge and it get close to 50 numbers at one point.

But, finding no other alternative, our peoples have informed nearest International Border Out Post (IBOP) belongs to Border Security Force of India (BSFI). It is then that the BSFI soldiers have fired one warning round in the air and forcing the intruders to recoil and then the Bangladeshi villagers have fled away.

.. Look, IBWBF has created unnecessary difficulties in our life and nothing else. It is rather giving a sleepless night. Because, our land and landed property have gone beyond the IBWBF. The members of my family and our neighbourers are also cultivator, who are facing same problems and required to go their land beyond the fencing for carrying out the works – cultivation, all day. Because, here the farming has been carrying out till last inch of the zero-line. Even, though, in general, the boundary has no hindrances, but, densely populated also. The key of the International Border Gate (IBG) through, which the IBV peoples are go to their respective lands, is kept with the Indian frontier guard – Border Security Force of India (BSFI) on duty. The BSFI personnel open the IBG thrice a day.

So, every cultivators of this village, whose plots of land lie beyond the fencing wait for the time of opening and closing the IBG. The BSFI soldiers can’t protect us and our food-grains and others (like : paddy, wheat, mustard-seeds, vegetables and jute et cetera), bulls, cows, et cetera (which draws plough) properly, for the Bangladeshis often come to our respective lands and steal away our produced hardship crops, which creates become a day-to-day incident.....”, rued permanent settler of local Khashi hamlet, Patharghat near Shella under of East Khashi Hills district of Northeastern Indian State, Meghalaya, near IBPN – 1239.