Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Maj Gen Aziz Ahmed on Thursday said the paramilitary force would rebuild 65 houses of the minority families, damaged in recent attacks in two upazilas of Jessore after the January 5 parliamentary elections.
He came up with the revelation while briefing local journalists at the BGB Jhumjhumpur camp in Jessore.
The BGB chief said the border guards will construct 63 concrete houses for the Hindu community members at Malopara of Abhaynagar while two for the two gang-rape victims at Hazrail of Monirampur.
Besides, a temple, a club house and toilets will also be built, he said.
“Eight houses have already been constructed in Abhaynagar,” Maj Gen Aziz said, adding: “BGB has been building the houses following the instruction of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.”
Referring to the border killings perpetrated by Indian Border Security Force (BSF), he claimed that the border killing marked a decrease in 2013 when a total of 38 Bangladeshi nationals were killed along different frontiers with India.
Many of them were killed by their rivals following disputes over personal or business-related conflicts while trespassing into the Indian territory, the BGB director general added.
He also said BGB and the government are always in discussions with New Delhi about the border killing.
Stating that there remains curfew from 7pm to 5am along the Indian border, Maj Gen Aziz urged people not to cross the border illegally at night to avert any unpleasant incident.
-UNB
