VERONICA PEDROSA, CNN ANCHOR: Dhaka says Indian soldiers have killed two Bangladeshis in the past couple of days along the border between the two countries. Dhaka says Indian troops on the border have killed a total of six Bangladeshis during the past week. Earlier, Dhaka-based journalist Afsan Chowdhury explained why an agreement between the two governments to resolve border disputes was not being implemented.</s>AFSAN CHOWDHURY, JOURNALIST: One of the reasons is this is really happening at the border area, and the soldiers level, not really at the policy level, where it is recognized that these kind of problems at the border are not going to go away until the borders are properly demarcated, and where there is some understanding that people will not cross over, but people are not going to fire at each other. That kind of a border does not exists between India and Bangladesh. It is not really like the line of control in Kashmir, which is a heavily patrolled border. This is a very porous border. Sometimes the people who live on the border here don't even know where the border is and where the border isn't, as well as the fact that there is a lot of what is called informal trade or smuggling going on. So it is a small border, and such incidents are not uncommon. These are civilians who live in the area who die, and it's been going on for some time. It is not something which people think is unusual, but it's a bit unusual, because we were expecting that there would be more restraint.</s>PEDROSA: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told parliament she hoped the border problems would be resolved soon. END TO ORDER VIDEOTAPES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF CNN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMING, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE THE SECURE ONLINE ORDER FROM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Bangladesh-India Agreement to Resolve Border Disputes Not Being Implemented