Perspective 2
The India-Bangladesh border is undefined, which regularly leads to skirmishes and death. When a large number of Indian jawans died, within Bangladeshi territory, India's press and television decided that they did not need to check the facts and nuances.
Earlier this year, Bangladesh had a problem with Burmese authorities who had begun construction of a culvert at the Bangla-Burma border, an act which violated the existing border arrangement. There was exchange of fire at some point but the conflict was resolved after talks between the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and the Burmese border security outfit. The problem ended with the disputed construction being stopped.
Bangladesh's border with India is not like its border with Burma or the India-Pakistan Line of Control. It is almost a magic-realist border, with local people defining where each country ends or begins according to need, convenience, or whim. There is no Naf river as in the Bangla-Burmese frontier to give some natural fixity to it. In fact, the designated border existed only in the British minds of long ago that drew it.