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Sun Apr 22 02:34:53 2001
Name:Indian
Email:indian@india.com
Views:Man...its all politics..of Bangladesh govt.. and of Indian govt too...You know political leaders are all criminals..in India...in Paki..in Bangladesh..they wont care for human lives. What they want is their Gaddi...they will be ready to kill their country's citizens for their own business. Indians...learn from US, China, Japan, England......where a single citizen is of so important to country.. Whereas in India..forget about common man....politics are sacrificing lives of our BSF jawans..who are protecting us from others. Brother...remember.. next time when there is election.. dont cast your vote for a criminal.. If you find all criminals (99.99% chances are that you will find)dont cast your vote. I dont know when people of India will woke up..and change the system.. Compare political leaders of India with those of European countries. If these basteds were there they would have been in jails. Fortunately there was no one from political leaders families.... otherwise it would have been a different scene. My deepest condolenses to families of martyred BSF jawans who sacrificed their lives in protecting us.

Sun Apr 22 02:40:08 2001
Name:kapartapik
Email:rikitikitavi99@hotmail.com
Views:Hey,power-blind politicos in delhi and the so-called foreign policy and defence mandarins out there. Have u read this list. (how could u have?the intelligence chaps would not have got it yet.obviously) go on.. read on... 1) Deputy Commandant B R Mandal 2) Sub-Inspector Panna Lal 3) Sub-Inspector Amrik Singh 4) Head Constable Roman Gouda 5) Head Constable U Raman Nair 6) Head Constable B R Nath 7) Constable Mohammad Mofil Uddin 8) Constable Anand Singh 9) Constable Sudhir Yadav 10) Constable Gurbax Singh 11) Constable Pradeep Kumar 12) Constable Sukhwinder Singh 13) Constable Sanatan Dhalla 14) Constable Abdul Hakim Sheikh 15) Constable Desh Raj Did u know who they were? They were fathers,husbands and sons who had the misfortune of serving with the BSF. They were all killed,nay,tortured to death by the Bangladeshis. yes,yes,its the Banglas now who are baying for our blood. And what do u ppl do about it. nothing. Just some standard lip-service and the traditional pussyfooting. Good,very good indeed. Maybe its very good foreign policy 'coz the Banglas are our allies,after all,are'nt they? But respectable(?) sirs,how do u propose this be told to the family members of those who were killed and mutilated? Will they be given the usual compensation and stuff? Will u also throw in a Govt job? yeah,maybe that will shut them up. yes sirs,it might just work. But what about ppl like me? I,and the other countrymen feel ashamed when we see that there is no response(either diplomatic or military) to our soldiers being killed by Banglas. This is just not done and is in fact pathetic. you are being shameless and even disrespectful to the dead soldiers by your cavalier

Sun Apr 22 02:40:52 2001
Name:Khaled Uddin
Email:Khaled@hotmail.com
Views:I'm a bangladeshi. And we might be a poor country, and might not match india militarily but that doesn't mean we can't hurt all those pathetic indians where it hurts the most. all these indians who have wrote pathetic messages shaming Bangladesh can go to hell, just like the muslims are fighting Israel's occupation of Arab land in the middle east, we are doing the same. The village that we took last week setting of this crisis was bangladeshis, and all those disgusting, filthy indians who fled the villages should have stayed so we could have killed them to, You take one military punch against us and you see how many Arab nations will come rallying to our side so I'm telling you india take your best shot because we will retaliate even harder. If you thought 16 indian soldiers dead was bad you ain't seen nothing yet!

Sun Apr 22 02:43:15 2001
Name:desinewyorker
Email:gg134@hotmail.com
Views:I like everyone else am extremely disturbed by this incident, however, contrary to what others seem to suggest here, a nation's greatness is not defined by its apetite for revenge or retribution. I cannot believe that this was an orchestrated campaign by the bangladeshi government. The guilty should be punished..and India should use every diplomatic and economic leverage it has to make this happen..however..nothing is served by raising the rhetoric..especially when the govt. in bangladesh is percieved by locals as being friendly to India. I commend the government acting with poise...and not doing a la 'bush' during the chinese crisis Prayers and best wishes to the families... REDIFF -> Can we start a collection drive on your site for the families ?

Sun Apr 22 02:48:38 2001
Name:Mo
Email:mo201a@yahoo.com
Views: Why blame the Pakistanis at Kargil or tbe BDs ? Its written in the Quran that idol worshippers are to killed wherever they are found chapter 9 verse 5 , and that prisoners of war must have limbs cut off and then crucified . Unless a Hindu India gets the courage to ban these verses , Indian soldiers will keep getting killed and mutilated not only in BD and Kashmir , but soon in India too..

Sun Apr 22 02:55:13 2001
Name:Raj kumar
Email:radhraj@hotmail.com
Views:History repeats itself,again and again, and not without a reason - hoping that someday that we as Indians will rise to the occasion with our action rather than "diplomatic talks". Talks are to encouraged as long as both sides are talking, not when one side is busy butchering jawans. Amid the plethora of pathetic diplomacy and buereaucracy, let us not forget the famalies of those who lost their precious lives in gaurding us. It would be even more barbaric not to attend to the affected famalies and ensure our fullest support morally and financially. Jai Hind

Sun Apr 22 02:57:17 2001
Name:Ram
Email:asdf@asdf;asd.com
Views:Indian Govt is too merciful and too mellow. Unless something happens to the kith and kin of bloody political leaders, no conceivable action is taken. Among other things it doesnot have time to react to these kind of grave situations because of internal rumblings like scams etc. All the political sissies can do is manhandling in the parliament God save the nation...

Sun Apr 22 03:01:06 2001
Name:prashant
Email:eparas@rediffmail.com
Views:"one US$ is euqls Forty six Rupees ". plsssss. built the same spirit that ONE INDIAN IS EQUAL TO 100 PERSONS any where in the world. unless until we value our lives ...we can not save them.

Sun Apr 22 03:08:18 2001
Name:sidd
Email:siddhartharoy@email.com
Views:WE WANT RETRIBUTION FOR EVERY DROP OF BLOOD. SUCH RETRIBUTION AS WILL TEACH THEM THEM TO LIVE IN TERROR IF THEY CANNOT DO SO IN DIGNITY.

Sun Apr 22 03:12:32 2001
Name:Shrikant Shenoy
Email:shrikantshenoy@hotmail.com
Views:Congratulations My Friends: Now we can act BIG BROTHER to a small nation like Bangladesh! Like U.S., we needed small nations like Iraq and Yugoslavia to blow to smithereens! We've got Bangladesh. Go ahead. BOMB THEM! How SHAMELESS can we get. Did anyone for a moment think that one bloody Bangladeshi major was chaavi-firaooed by Pakistan's ISI to do this? Pakistan WANTS India to be encircled by enemies. They are fuelling riots by Maoists in Nepal, funding the opposition in Bangladesh which is supported by ISI-funded fundamentalist anti-India Jamaat-e-Islami, the LTTE in Sri Lanka (ISI plays the game both ways there!)... What else do you need? BOMB Bangladesh, score points, and play into the hands of the ISI. With reactions like these, ISI doesn't need to chaavi-firaoo others, there are a lot of STUPID INDIANS to this!!! By the way: HATS OFF to ISI!

Sun Apr 22 03:12:52 2001
Name:Sanjeev
Email:jeev143@rediff.com
Views:The government and the political parties'here are more worried 'bout remaining in power rather than protecting the country's borders(prestige)...if all those "supreme powers"..like bhutan,nepal,bangladesh, srilanka...goes on attacking this poorcountry "india",like this in the future...india won't b there .The govt. and opponents are more worried 'bout their future than the country's.It 'll b a better idea for the vajpayee govt. to send its cadets and alies to the border..than stimulating them to demolish monuments."OTHER THAN OPTING FOR COMPENSATION PACKAGE FROM BANGLADESHIS LIKE BEGGARS,MR.VAJPAYEE, JUST TRY TO PROVE TO THE WORLD THAT INDIANS TOO HAVE BACKBONES.AND MAKE THE BANGLADESHIS REALIZE AND FEEL FOR THE BLUNDER THEY HAVE CREATED,BUT PLS. DON'T OPT. FOR THAT USELESS NON - VIOLENCE TO PROVE THEM...DO THAT IN SUCH A WAY...THAT THEY SHOULD FORGET THINKING 'BOUT ATTACKING INDIA"...THE WORLD'S SECOND LARGEST POPULATION IS WITH U,READY TO OFFER THEIR LIVES TO PROVE INDIA'S POWER... LET THE DEMOLITION OF BANGLADESH BEGIN "JAI -HIND" "

Sun Apr 22 03:12:55 2001
Name:Sanjeev
Email:jeev143@rediff.com
Views:The government and the political parties'here are more worried 'bout remaining in power rather than protecting the country's borders(prestige)...if all those "supreme powers"..like bhutan,nepal,bangladesh, srilanka...goes on attacking this poorcountry "india",like this in the future...india won't b there .The govt. and opponents are more worried 'bout their future than the country's.It 'll b a better idea for the vajpayee govt. to send its cadets and alies to the border..than stimulating them to demolish monuments."OTHER THAN OPTING FOR COMPENSATION PACKAGE FROM BANGLADESHIS LIKE BEGGARS,MR.VAJPAYEE, JUST TRY TO PROVE TO THE WORLD THAT INDIANS TOO HAVE BACKBONES.AND MAKE THE BANGLADESHIS REALIZE AND FEEL FOR THE BLUNDER THEY HAVE CREATED,BUT PLS. DON'T OPT. FOR THAT USELESS NON - VIOLENCE TO PROVE THEM...DO THAT IN SUCH A WAY...THAT THEY SHOULD FORGET THINKING 'BOUT ATTACKING INDIA"...THE WORLD'S SECOND LARGEST POPULATION IS WITH U,READY TO OFFER THEIR LIVES TO PROVE INDIA'S POWER... LET THE DEMOLITION OF BANGLADESH BEGIN "JAI -HIND" "

Sun Apr 22 03:13:52 2001
Name:Vinayak HArishchandrakar
Email:vinayakh@excite.com
Views:After Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh who is next to manhandle our great (?) country?? Probably sri-Lanka ?? I guess even Bhutan will be more than enough. It is unfortunate that our spineless govt, is more interested in better relations(?), than the life of our own soldires and their families. I am sure the reaction of this govt would have been much different if any of our leaders would have had their sons meet similar fate. The people of India owe an apology not only from Bangladesh but our own govt as well!

Sun Apr 22 03:21:18 2001
Name:bharat
Email:bharat@bcom.com
Views:This is ridiculous. Now we hear about reports of our soldiers mutilated and tortured. God save our nation ! WE HAD GREAT EXPECTATIONS FROM BJP(NDA) GOVT. THEY FAILED MISERABLY. NEXT NEPAL OR BURMA WOULD DO THIS....ANOTHER 30 -40 YEARS, INDIA WILL BREAK AND BECOME AN AFRICAN CONTINENT...

Sun Apr 22 03:23:52 2001
Name:Nag
Email:nagarjun_jain@rediffmail.com
Views:It's a shear mishandling of the situation and showing how weak our defence and foreign policy is.

Sun Apr 22 03:25:36 2001
Name:Arjun
Email:ajuarora@hotmail.com
Views:If you remember these Bangladeshi Illegal immigrants bastards in Delhi had attacked Police Post in Jamuna Pushta Area and tried to lynch policemen last year. So people just wake up, Govt is not going to do anything, we have to take care on our own, donot employ these bangladeshis in your factories, do not hire them as labour, do not give a penny to these beggars, let them die of starvations.

Sun Apr 22 03:31:35 2001
Name:mojojojo
Email:gauravhada@usa.net
Views:Has anyone been to the B'desh's daily INdependant's site. There is no mention of the deaths of the BSF jawans. In fact there's an article about the distress of those bloody b'desh villagers on having to move out from the land that the BDR had 'claimed back' from Indian occupation. It also said that firing in the border had stopped as the BSF had 'retreated back' after instructions from GoI. It said that the villagers helped the BDR and fought alongside them to claim the 'lost land'. No wonder 16 of our jawans died. If this seems to be the attitude in country its time we taught them a lesson. However what is sad is the fact that the BDR had no respect or fear for Indian forces or any retaliation as it knew there wouldn't be any.We cannot let this happen.

Sun Apr 22 03:32:53 2001
Name:Shrikant Shenoy
Email:shrikantshenoy@hotmail.com
Views:Here are a few quotes I have culled from the Rediff Message Board:
"Minion country", "a small nation with 1000 problems all the time come and kill 16 of us, shame on me and all of us", "Why should we have to tolerate such nonsense from a country that came into existence only b'coz of India", "It is obvious to anyone that Bangladesh a country full of Beggars and Lowlifes...", "Bloody Bangladeshis", "Throw out all Bangladeshis from INDIA!!!...all Nepalis, all Sri Lankans!!", "It is high time we consider that Bangladesh is an other Pakistan", "What is Bangladesh compared to India, and still such a poor country has courage in intruding India", "It is shameful thing for all country that a small country like Bangladesh dares to do like this", "A country which was fathered by us".... and on and on and on...
SHAME ON US INDIANS! We used to blame America for the BIG BROTHER attitude, and now we are adopting the same attitude... We Indians are highly emotional fools and can be easily taken for a ride by anyone: For example, the ISI.
When two brothers fight, it is the elder brother who has a greater responsibility to keep things under control. The younger brother may be hot-headed, but if the elder brother loses his anger, then everything is finished. Both lose. And the neighbour (Pakistan) has the last laugh!!!
I apologise to Bangladesh for all the venom that has been spitted out by we IGNORANT INDIAN FOOLS!

Sun Apr 22 03:43:00 2001
Name:Kitbok Nongrum
Email:d@.com
Views:Hi all there fellow Indians i'm a Khasi from Meghalaya.One question are you guys really serious about the North East?Your Government has encouraged the Bangladeshi to come to our lands, steal our jobs, our land and our women. For your information the demographic change is such in less than 5 years there will be more Bangladeshis in the North East.Hope they will like to sing the national anthem and Vande Mataram.

Sun Apr 22 03:55:18 2001
Name:Chandu
Email:chandu999@excite.com
Views:It is the murder of sixteen Indian soldiers, in the uncivilized manner by the Bangladeshi people. Our leaders do not comment, as they want to maintain good relations with Bangladesh. No response to the brutal incident. Pakistan occupies Indian Territory and India fights to get back just its territory and loses lot of people in this process. No action taken to pressurize Pakistan from not daring such a thing again. First they said it is without the notice of “Nawaz Sharif” when militants occupied Indian Territory with Pakistan’s military support. Now they say it is to trouble Hasina’s government. It is the responsibility of the respective governments to know what is happening with their military or else they have to pay for that mistake. Pakistan ISI is so much into the Indian territory and gets so much Information from India. But they can’t get the info. of what is happening with their own military. It is their mistake and they have to suffer for that. What message are our leaders sending to the world by keeping quite? When will our leaders learn from China, America and Israel? Even America and China are so much dependent on each other, America is not ready to compromise with an apology and China demanded an apology for their killed soldier, who is dead accidentally. For loosing one soldier Israel replied with bombardment. 15 of our BSF people were killed so cruelly and nothing our leaders are doing for that. We are no way dependent on either Pakistan or Bangladesh. Our leaders fight for having a temple or musjid. One party supports that and other party opposes that. But for them the lives of the people who are securing them and the country are not important. Even the opposition is not talking anything. Our country must take proper steps so that such things will not happen in future.

Sun Apr 22 03:57:45 2001
Name:Shailesh Garg
Email:garg_shail@hotmail.com
Views: What the hell is going on? Teach Bangladesh a big lesson so that in future no-one will dare to intrude our land. Shame on you in-capable politicians. What are you waiting for now? -Shailesh

Sun Apr 22 03:58:07 2001
Name:dkm
Email:courtguru@hotmail.com
Views: Every week I catch up on news from India, always making appropriate allowances for the pathetic state of affairs that is reflecte therein. But this week, I was absolutely ouraged, but much more important, totally ashamed after reading about the BD affair with the brave soldiers who were mutilated. Instead of a national attempt to eliminate this scourge, what one sees is an unbelievable response of trying to maintain "bilteral relations" with a laughing poor excuse of a country. The world is watching us, and sadly have come to the conclusion many moons ago, that we are a spineless bunch of corrupt individuals who will sit on comfortable bottoms even when their honor is seriously brought into question. How else to interpret this non-response by so-called nationalists who were so brave when demolishing an unattended BabaMasjid, but time and agin, Kargil, Paki/Kashimr humiliations, have sat back and tried to take a diplomatic approach? Too much time is spent in always comparing ourselves to someone else, usually the West ( a sure sign of inferiority if ever there was one). Why not take some unambiguous action that reflects that there are still some "men" left in India? True, international relations must always be considered - but this gives much too credit for entities comprising the "international body" as they themselves too often act in their pure self interest. I am truly ashamed to be considered of Indian heritage after these series of spectacular humiliations inflicted on us. When will we ever stand up for principles? Of course, with corruption rampant in the land, leaders really should not be judged too harshly for putting themselves and their families above national interests. It is perhaps not too late still to conduct a massive retaliatory response to avenge the BSR jawans. There is no such animal as a "measured" response when dealing with barbar

Sun Apr 22 04:07:01 2001
Name:Suresh
Email:kg_suresh@hotmail.com
Views:Indian Politicians have once again proven to the world as to how spineless ,indecisive and totally apathetic they are.BJP seems to be the latest member of the ever-growing shameless & cowards Club. Shame on us for treating such a grossly violent act of Bangladesh with just remarks and almost no retaliation.I wonder when they will stop those never-ending investigations which are designed to erase such memories from people's mind owing to their long time-frames. We are sending very dangerous and wrong signals to the world of our resolution and political will-power to deal with such atrocities.At this rate Nepal's going to try its luck next and I won't be surprised if it gets away scotfree.If the BDR has acted without the consent of the Bangladeshi Govt.,does that mean they can kill and get away with that excuse ?If so,I strongly urge the BSF to take much hard-hitting action and blame it on some trigger-happy 'locals' or some commander.In any case , its shocking to hear that the BSF personnel were tortured before being killed.Its not enough just to express serious concern,Vajpayee.If we have any self-esteem left,we should respond with 1:10 severity in action.I hope Vajpayee sees all these feelings and wake up : for India's sake.

Sun Apr 22 04:19:36 2001
Name:arish k. sahani
Email:asahani@ft.newyorklife.com
Views:Its is surprising when we hear these reprots,we feel ashmed of muslims as they are causing all this . Now question ,should we blame Muslim religion or Muslim people. Question is, we never hear any muslim leader or intellectual condeming these acts of muslims. Seems this muslim religion has done some much harm to human race than any other religion.It's time someone should expose this barberian religion and culture which has bot served the human race in any way. I have still to see any muslim intellectual, a great poet,writer,scientist, humaneterian. When I see many afganis are dieing from hunger and pakistan wounn't let them in their country nor iran or saudi arebia will take them in their country as a refugy. They have exported the religion but they are not interested to taking care of their muslim brothers and sisters.

Sun Apr 22 04:21:06 2001
Name:sachin
Email:sachinkm@yahoo.com
Views:This is a full blooded slap on the face of Indian people. This idiotic government is making fool of the Indian people. Had our jawans pounced on a land of country like Pakistan or Bangladesh and those countries would have fought back with hostility and fire ! None of the Bangladeshis should have been left soil of India alive. All of those men who attacked India need to be dealth with death blow and their graves dug on the very soil they attacked so that no other country ever dreams of doing such an act against India. We all again need to rise and fight for freedom ! Freedom from these boneless politicians and give a proud face to Mother India ... Jai Hind !

Sun Apr 22 04:22:27 2001
Name:Dhiraj
Email:dhiraj_sehgal@hotmail.com
Views:for assamesse brothers u;ll never be in minority in your state.. those bastards bangldeshi who took our shelter for their freedom from the bastards rogues pakistanis if think can annex assam they r bigest idiots, this country cant br broken at all. stop illegal immigration evryhting will be fine.first fuck the bastards out of this country.. they need shelter stop illegal immigration at any cost. if we are restraint we should remain .. but the limits should never be tested. they'll pay for it.

Sun Apr 22 04:25:31 2001
Name:Ranjan
Email:ranjann@hotmail.com
Views:It should be made clear in no minor terms that the lives of every Indian citizen is valued and should there be an attempt to take away the life of an Indian citizen-civilian or military-by barbaric,merciless and inhuman means, it shall be dealt with strongly. Bangladesh should be taught a lesson that it will never forget. Next time it does try something as fancy as intruding onto Indian territory, it should be made sure that not a single one its men should leave Indian soil alive. Bangladesh is morally responsible for the lives of those killed and should pay adequate compensation to their families though loss of life is irreplaceable. I strongly support the views of the majority of the readers that India should follow the Israeli example of punishment of its enemies across the border.

Sun Apr 22 04:28:35 2001
Name:Mangesh Pande
Email:mangs@hotmail.com
Views:It is unfortunate that inspite of such a strong army we face such humiliations again and again and that too from the countries like Pakisthan and Bangladesh. This only because of our brainless politicians who are void of very strong sense of nationalism. It is again proven by this episode that Our PM Vajpaiee is not only weak kneed , he is also spineless coward. We don't need such PM. We should 'cleanse' all these bastards first. It is time for India to have PM and DM who are ruthless and having less tolarant while dealing with national security issues. It is high time for us also to change our mantality of tolarance. We have to be ruthless like Israiles and tough and cunning like China.

Sun Apr 22 04:34:11 2001
Name:suresh kannan
Email:kannan@uav.ae.gatech.edu
Views:If we had won our country through british blood we might feel more united and actually react to situations like this. Looks like we are impotent. Gandhi is probably looking down on us and realizing his great dis-service. Let Ariel Sharon be prime minister for a few weeks and he should sort out the morons on our borders. Instead what do we have ?.. a 74 year old poet. I say even let a guy like musharraf run our country, atleast he has a spine. Atleast the pakistanis have a united passion in hating us. We get our nuts kicked in and we just whimper off. The bangladeshis have a country because of us. Yet they feel more kinship with pakistan than india. Ungrateful pigs.

Sun Apr 22 04:36:34 2001
Name:SIMPLY OUTRAGED
Email:outraged@hotmail.com
Views:I cant believe this!!! what is happening?????? are we the "Nuclear Power" we claim to be????? I'm not saying that we should nuke 'em, but for a pathetic country like bangladesh to act with such impunity says a lot about our face value! I really thought that the current government was getting us somewhere, but to act with such "Tolerance" is STUPID! what about the lives of 16 INDIAN SOLDIERS??????? dosent the life of an INDIAN mean anything to the DAMN government????? we are being taken for a ride from all sides. We should leave the Ghandian ways and start being more in line with reality. Survival of the fittest. If we continue with our spineless behavior, we wont have anything left. the government should stand up for its people, should be outraged if its citizens are harassed, should definitely be mad when its soldiers are killed. what a pathetic situation! if our "nuclear deterrent" doesnt stop a puny country from attacking India, do u think China is even going to be bothered????? why cant we learn from countries like Israel? do u think it would have "lodged a protest"? or do u think it would have acted?? for all our so called "might" and "glory" we have acted in the most cowardly, deplorable manner. i am ashamed. is this the gratitude we show our soldiers protecting us? WAKE UP GOVERNMENT! ACT! MAKE US A RESPECTED NATION.

Sun Apr 22 04:50:44 2001
Name:Gopal Kollengode
Email:GSK@hotmail.com
Views:It is really distressing to read again that our Jawans protecting the country's borders have been mutilated & killed this time by BDR barbarians. Last time it was done by Pakis & Afghan barbarians during the Kargil crisis. I used to think bangladeshis to be more genial & civilized than blood thirsty Pathans & Pakis. I dont think Islam teaches this mode of behaviour. Though we have to maintain friendly relations with our neighbours, some kind of response is required from the Indian side lest it is mistaken for spinelessness. I wont be surprised if ISI is behind these events also. They have successfully turned all our neibhours against us. Their tentacles are spread from Kerala & Tamilnadu in the south to Kashmir in the NW & Assam in the NE. Nepal has been turned into a virtual ISI playground with even Paki Embassy personnel indulging in terrorist activities. Only thru judicious & decisive action can India can maintain peace in the land.

Sun Apr 22 05:00:15 2001
Name:Mahendran
Email:mahendran_js@hotmail.com
Views:If you look into what has been happening for the last couple of days, you can infer 2 things. 1. Bangladesh government has gone postal and decided to attack India and we were taken by surprise. 2. There was some kind of pact between the Hasina government and her counterparts in India. She is loosing her popularity in Bangladesh because of her Indian "stooge" image. So this might some kind of save the face stunt. In either case one thing you notice is that India is standing to loose. I've been a big fan of the BJP government. But this incident makes us drop our head in shame. What kind of intelligence do we have if we cannot anticipate a threat from such a small country? Even after they attack it took us 3 days to respond. Is this how our well army which calls itself a well oiled machinery work? Or are they so much tied down in red tape that they had to wait for 3 days to take action? On the other hand if this is some kind of under-the-table work between India and Bangladesh who is to account for the lifes of the 16 jawans who died? How can be let our citizens be tortured to death by a begger nation because someone had to gain some popularity there. This is really pathetic. Now I'm going to think twice before I vote for BJP again.

Sun Apr 22 05:01:31 2001
Name: Dr Banibrata Pandey
Email:pandeybanibrata@rediffmail.com
Views:Let me make it very clear Bangladesh was never and will never be a friend of India,every Bangladeshi by heart is Pakisthani ,the name Bangladesh is a mask only to fool rest of the world.CAN ANY ONE SHOW A SINGLE OCCATION IN THE SO CALLED BANGLADESH HISTORY WHEN THEY ACTED LIKE FRIEND OF INDIA? I know you will be unsuccessful,try to recall Mirzafore was borne in this land only,Let us rename so called Bangladesh as Mirzaforeland.I am now fully convinced that our Govt.of India is run by a bunch of invertebrate,coward,possibly not aware of a word called self-esteem.

Sun Apr 22 05:06:28 2001
Name:Som Chakraborti
Email:bhulu@yahoo.om
Views:Hailing from Calcutta, being a Bengali myself and with ancestors hailing from ertswhile East Bengal I share a common language with this country, but this time I have to say, "Just finish them off !" During my many years abroad I have come across numerous Bangladeshis in US, but I have to metion that I found, most unfortunately, almost 80% of them suffering from tremendous inferiority complex and they are very resentful of me for being an Indian. This is a very disturbing trend; people make up a nation, so I wouldn't be wrong in assuming that the whole nation of Bangladesh as such is resentful of India in general, which made them do what they did to us recently. Where would thay have been without our help during their '71 War of Liberation ? There's a saying in Bangla, "Shotrur shesh raakhtey nei", which when loosely translated means: 'Leave no trace of your enemy'. So the Govt. of India should do the same.

Sun Apr 22 05:13:41 2001
Name:S. Reddy
Email:gyptian@yahoo.com
Views:To all the bigots on this board. Why cant you see this 'intrusion' as just a sad mistake and let it be. Why are all of you so friggin war hungry. Im sure its easy to call for arms sitting pretty in your cozy chairs with no inkling whatsoever of the consequences. I wish you would feel the same outrage at : 1] Child Labour 2] Dowry Deaths 3] Malnutrition Deaths 4] Death in Custody 5] Death due to displacement I could go on .... but of course we need to feed that insatiable urge to kill because we are male (almost all the people who posted) .. fuck it ... why waste time on this nonsense !!

Sun Apr 22 05:15:26 2001
Name:unproud_desi
Email:dont_want_togive@rediff.com
Views:Blood boils over the inhumane treatment meeted out to our 16 BSF soldiers. Why have weapons if you cant retaliate. Why build LCA's and nukes when you cant intimidate pidly little B'desh. I agree with all those who favor retaliation to avenge the lives of our 16 brave soldiers. Like some suggested, the Govt is a bunch of eunuchs. Choodi pehan ke rakhe, jho badla na kar paaye. Somebody raising the contrast between Israeli retaliations to our situation is totally justified. All that the Govt did was protest. I am ashamed of be Indian. I thought the Govt did us all proud with the nuke testing and all, but no this Govt doesnt have guts. It cant avenge the deaths of its soldiers. Next what, Nepal and Bhutan will occupy us. And would we still support development programmes for B'Desh. Flood relief assistance and all that. Lets put sanctions until they give us the BDR responsible for this incident and prosecute them in International War crimes tribunal. We are justified to seek that. If they dont, heck, bomb all those BDR positions along the border until submission. I guess, we all know , whats going to happen inspite of all our outbursts. The Govt will sleep over this and yet another sign of weakness.

Sun Apr 22 05:18:20 2001
Name:Ravichandran
Email:misc1956@hotmail.com
Views:I think that the Govt of India should be congratulated for the way it has handled this unfortunate episode. Of course the death of 16 people is very sad. But as anyone who is half knowledgeable about the situation in BD, esp the scism between the mainstream and the Islamists would know, the killings were the work of the latter element. So while retribution is in order a foolish shotgun approach will only hurt people we should support. India must respect the Govt and people of BD - and accept that they will attempt to punish those responsible - and not run down a country that despite decades of depradation by the Pakistanis, has done a great job in improving it's people's lot in the last several years.

Sun Apr 22 05:18:56 2001
Name:Alan
Email:alan@alan.com
Views:What the hell ! GO OUT AND TEACH THESE BANGLADESHIS A LESSON. WE SHOULD REACT TO SITUATIONS LIKE THESE THE WAY U.S. BOMBED AFGHANISTAN WHEN A NUMBER OF US CITIZENS WERE KILLED IN BOMB BLASTS IN EAST AFRICA. WE SHOULD STOP THINKING AND SEND OUR AIR FORCE JETS TO DESTROY ALL THE F.... BDR MEN. ANYWAYS BANGLADESHIS ARE KNOWN COWARDS....!

Sun Apr 22 05:19:12 2001
Name:uday bhaskar
Email:udaybhaskar@rediffmail.com
Views:It is disgusting to see the reaction of the indian govt on this issue.16 of our soldiers are tortured and butchered in cold blood and we simply protest against the bangla govt.What is this?We are really a very soft state.We are ruled by eunuchs. The bangladeshi's who killed our soldiers are not human.How can anybody have such disrespect to fellow human beings.How can somebody pull out eyes when the victim is still alive and shoot them at point blank range.The bangla bastards have to be killed.Thats all.There should be no inqiry.They have to be identified and tortured the way they have tortured our soldiers.We should take revenge.It is no use protesting against those bastards.All the bangladeshis have to be driven out of our country.Our policy towards our neighbours should be completely changed.We should assert ourself more aggressively.Nobody can take India for granted.The BJP govt should take responsibility for this incident and attack bangladesh.There should be a swift air strike all along the bangla border and the BDR should be wiped out.

Sun Apr 22 05:31:26 2001
Name:Sandy Kohli
Email:vicky_1965@hotmail.com
Views:God will save and help India,The policies of BJP gov first on Kargil then on the highjacking of Indian airlines and now on the killing of 16 Indian soldiers shows that how weak the government is, shame on them, One day any one can come and play with us.

Sun Apr 22 05:39:19 2001
Name:chima
Email:mschimajr@home.com
Views:About 400 years ago Mohamad gajnabi invaded india 15 times without any resistence. All because of Indian are not aggressive that's why we couldn't produce a single person who can win gold in any world tounament. I think meat product shoud be cheaply avialable so very indian should afford to eat non-veg easily. We need to walk the path of Bhagat Singh, Subash chander Boss, Udham Singh etc,if somebody mess with you make sure not happen second time.

Sun Apr 22 05:42:05 2001
Name:Arun Mani
Email:ampay@hotmail.com
Views:I think our government has misinterpreted Ahimsa as inaction. This incident clearly differentiates how the US and India deal with things when its men are in danger. It is shame on the Indian government to sit and watch as our men are being killed. The message that is being passed along time and again to the world is "we have 1 billion people, we have the second largest standing army in the world, losing just some of them does not do any damage, we have more pressing issues to take care of now". The best kind of defense is deterrence. These kind of incidents expose us to be weak and bureaucratic in dealing with hostility. Anyone would dare to take on India. After all, they will issue some statements and then accept things as 'whatever has happened has happened'. When are we going to learn from our mistakes? I am sorry for those brave men who put their lives on the line inspite of knowing that their government doesn't care about losing a few.

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