The Stateless Rohingya Blog

Officials of Border Guard Bangladesh, in the right row, and Myanmar's Border Guard Police (BGP) at a deputy director general-level (DDG) flag meeting in Myanmar's Maungdaw yesterday, as tension flared on the border after a BGB nayek, Mizanur Rahman, was shot dead by BGP in an unprovoked attack on May 28. The two sides were led by Cox's Bazar Sector Commander Col Khandker Farid Hasan and Maungdaw's Director Police Brig Thin Ko Ko. Photo: BGB .................................................................................................................................................. Returns his SMG, ammo at a BGB-BGP flag meeting; claims they mistook him for Rohingya separatist Myanmar's Border Guard Police (BGP) yesterday returned the sub-machine gun (SMG) of slain Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Nayek Mizanur Rahman along with 120 bullets and four magazines following a flag meeting between the two forces. In an unprovoked attack, BGP shot at ...

Photo: BD Military Staff Correspondent,   BDNews24 June 01, 2014 Myanmar has returned the body of a border guard, missing since a border firing at Bandarban's Naikhangchharhi. Maj Gen Aziz Ahmed, the head of Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB), said the trooper missing since Wednesday was identified by a BGB team on Saturday evening. “He was identified as our Nayek Md Mizanur Rahman .” The 10-strong team completed all formalities to bring the body back at 6pm, he told reporters at BGB headquarters in Dhaka. Earlier, Myanmar border police officer Tun Oo confirmed to Irrawaddy, a Myanmar news portal that a BGB personnel had been killed by his unit during the border skirmish. “They told us last night that they would bring the body to the 52 border pillar between 11:00 to 11:30 am today (Saturday). They set the ground rule, saying ten of our men, led by a major, should meet ten of them,” said the BGB chief. But Myanmar’s border police did not b...

Naikonchari, Bangladesh:  A flag meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) was held at Dusari Union, near Bangladesh-Burma border yesterday at about 10:00 am, according to BGB official. “They discussed different issues such as— drug trafficking, to maintain good  relation , illegal intrusion of Rohingya to Bangladesh, smuggling goods to and fro from Bangladesh and etc.” 16 members of both sides, BGB and Nasaka had participated in the meeting, BGB members from Bangladesh side led by Lt. Col. Mahabu Rahaman of Naikonchari  Battalion No. 15 while Nasaka personnel from Burma was led by the Commander U Min Min Than of Nasaka area No. 1, according to sources. The Nasaka Commander also had raised the issue of two (GE) army engineers who were abducted on November 7, 2012 by unknown persons while they were erecting pillars on Burma-Banladesh border, sources said. Regarding the  event , Burma’s border security forces rai...