Razzak finally returns home
BGB Nayek�s abduction was intentional, says DG
Held captive in the custody of the Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) for nine days, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Nayek Abdur Razzak yesterday finally returned home. He was released after a three-and-a-half hour-long flag meeting between the two border forcesthe BGB and BGPat Maungdaw in Myanmar.
The BGP authorities handed over Nayek Razzak along with his uniform and arms to BGB 42 Battalions Lt Col. Abu Zar Al Zahid after the flag meeting at Maungdaw in Myanmar around 3:00pm. After receiving the BGB trooper, the BGB delegation left Myanmar and reached the country at 6.30pm, carried by two high-speed boats of the Bangladesh Coast Guard, through the border point at Teknaf.
Earlier, a seven-member BGB team reached Maungdaw for the meeting around 10:15am.
Razzak was abducted by the BGP from the frontier along the Naf river at Teknaf on June 17.
BGBs director general, Maj. Gen. Aziz Ahmed, at a briefing held at the BGB headquarters in Peelkhana, stated that the BGPs abduction of Nayek Razzak was not a misunderstanding. After the abduction of the BGB trooper, state minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal had said the kidnapping was a misunderstanding.
However, the DG of BGB said the BGP was angry with the BGBs Nayek Razzak as he had seized a huge number of Yaba tablets from the border point in the past. The chief of the border force said he thinks that this was the main reason for the kidnapping of the trooper.
The BGP members kidnapped Razzak from our territory. The BGB members did not cross the international border line, the BGB DG confirmed.
Maj. Gen. Aziz said that they would strengthen relations with the BGP to avert such incidents in future.
Under the Bangladesh-Myanmar Border Agreement of 1980, the BGP had to return Razzak as soon as possible. Also, it cannot torture any border guards while in its custody.
The incident had occurred on the morning of June 17, when BGB trooper Biplob Kumar was shot, and Nayek Razzaq was abducted and his sub-machine gun (SMG) taken away by Myanmars BGP at the Naf river near Jadimura on the Teknaf border in Coxs Bazar.
On June 18, the foreign ministry summoned Myanmars ambassador in Dhaka, Myo Mint Than, to protest against the shooting at the border and abduction of the BGB trooper.
