Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said the process to send back 14 Border Guard Police (BGP) of Myanmar was underway. They fled their country due to heavy gunfights there.
"They are now in the custody of Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) and process is underway to send them back to Myanmar through foreign ministry, but none should come here," he told the journalists at his ministry office on Sunday, reports BSS.
The minister said they (Myanmar border police) entered into Bangladesh territory with weapons for self-defense. Recalling Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971, he said millions of Bangladeshi people went to India and took shelter there. So the border police of Myanmar entered into Bangladesh for shelter not for war.
Earlier, the BGP members took refuge in Bangladesh fleeing from their posts amid reports of heavy gunfights between the government troops and the rebel resistance fighters in the junta-run country.
"The 14 members of their BGP fled their country. They are now in our custody," an official of the BGB told the reporters on Sunday at the southeastern Cox's Bazar.
Another official, preferring anonymity, said the 14 BGP personnel crossed the border in predawn hours through the Ghum Dhum border along with their weapons and sought refuge to the BGB in Cox's Bazar last night.
Process underway to send back BGP men
Says Kamal
FE Team | Published: February 05, 2024 00:01:16
Process underway to send back BGP men
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