In this photoessay, Partha Sengupta explores the violence endured by those who live on the border shared by West Bengal in India and Bangladesh at the hands of the Indian Border Force (BSF), a paramilitary body under the Ministry of Home Affairs of India.
In 2010, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published Trigger Happy: Excessive Use of Force by Indian Troops at the Bangladesh Border, a report on the border shared by West Bengal in India and Bangladesh. HRW documented the excessive use of force by the Indian Border Force (BSF) on the people of India and Bangladesh who live on both sides of the international border. The BSF is a paramilitary body under the Ministry of Home Affairs of India entrusted to maintain security in the border areas with neighboring countries. The agency is governed by an Act of 1968 which is directly. They have their own internal judiciary and civilian courts are not allowed to pass judgment of any member of BSF. This privilege has contributed to create a climate of impunity against the excesses of the agency members. The 2,216 kilometers Bangladesh-India border is one of the longest in the world; it…
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