1979 Bangladesh-Indian skirmishes
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The 1979 Bangladesh-India skirmishes were a series of armed skirmishes and border firing between Bangladesh and India from November to December 1979. The skirmishes took place between troops of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and the Border Security Force (BSF) on the poorly-marked international border between the two countries.[1][2]
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Bangladesh | India | ||||||||
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Ziaur Rahman | Unknown | ||||||||
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Bangladesh Rifles | Border Security Force |
The clashes began on 1 November.[1] When for more than a month, India and Bangladesh had engaged in a gunbattle at the border town of BeIonia in northeastern India.[2][3][4] Bangladesh Rifles had fired nearly a hundred rounds into a river islet at Belonia, a small subdivisional town in South Tripura. While three companies of the Bangladesh Rifles have been deployed to man a single border outpost, about as many troops now guard the 50 km railway track between Belonia railway station which is in Feni - the principal town of the Bangladeshi district of Noakhali.[1]