The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) headquarters yesterday issued a rejoinder to the caption of a photograph run by The Daily Star on June 2.
The rejoinder said: "It came to the notice of Headquarters BGB about publishing of a pictorial news on 02 June, 2014, in the 11th page of The Daily Star which was captioned ''With the help of locals, BGB members remove landmines buried by Myanmar Border Guard Police at Bangladesh-Myanmar border yesterday. The landmines were buried between 50 and 52 border pillars at Naikkhangchhari in Bandarban.
Information of the captioned picture is not true. No such operation was conducted by BGB on that day. HQ BGB feels that, publication of such news is done intentionally with a view to hamper our ongoing joint efforts of rebuilding mutual trust and understanding between two neighboring countries. As such, Headquarters BGB strongly protests the published news."
OUR REPLY
The picture along with the caption was taken from Banglar Chokh, a photo and news agency. When the matter was brought to the agency's notice, it sent a correction to this newspaper saying that they had mistakenly posted the caption on their website on June 1 without mentioning it as a file photo.
The agency apologised for the inadvertent mistake.
Wednesday, 4 June 2014
BGB rejoinder, our reply
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