The younger brother of teenage girl Felani Khatun, who was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force along the Kurigram border 14 years ago, has obtained a job in the Border Guard Bangladesh.
Felani鈥檚 brother, Arfan Hossain, 21, on Thursday received the appointment letter from Lalmonirhat鈥檚 BGB Battalion-15 commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Mehedi Imam at the battalion headquarters.
Arfan appeared in the recruitment test organised by the BGB-15 Battalion on February 23 this year and is set to begin his training today, officials said.
鈥楢rfan has passed the recruitment test and BGB always stood by Felani鈥檚 family. I hope, after completing his training, Arfan will serve the country as a competent border guard,鈥� Lieutenant Colonel Mehedi Imam said.
Arfan, who completed his Higher Secondary Certificate, is from Dakhsin Ramkhana Colonatari village in Kurigram鈥檚 Nageshwari upazila.
His father is a day laborer and his mother is a homemaker.
Arfan recalled his sister鈥檚 death, 鈥業 was only seven or eight years old when my elder sister (Felani) was killed. When her body was brought home, I couldn鈥檛 stop crying.鈥�
He said that he was joining the BGB to guard the border where she was murdered.
鈥楾he sight of her body hanging from the barbed wire still floats before my eyes. I鈥檓 ready to give my life for the country while guarding along the frontier,鈥� he added.
Felani, a 15-year-old girl, was shot dead by the BSF in the Anantapur border under Phulbari upazila in Kurigram on January 7, 2011, when she was returning home crossing barbed-wire fences erected by India.
Her body was left hanging from the barbed-wire fence for five hours and the news sparked outrage and protests at home and abroad.
At least 34 Bangladeshis were killed by the BSF in the first year of the interim government鈥檚 tenure, while the figure was 30 in 2024 and 31 in 2023, according to rights group Ain O Salish Kendra data.
