Frontiers of fear: How the border keeps taking children

Frontiers of fear: How the border keeps taking children

‘‘One splinter struck my left eye and two my right. My right eye is completely ruined.” Rasel Mia, currently a third-year college student, was referring to a violent incident perpetrated by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) against Bangladeshi civilians.‘‘The BSF came hiding through the cornfields. There were two of them. They crossed the Indian boundary and entered Bangladeshi territory. Suddenly, they chased us. I jumped into the river,” …