The myth of Indo-Bangla friendship

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"A friend in need is a friend indeed"--- India has proven the proverb in 1971 by extending their all-out support to our War of Liberation against the occupying Pakistani military junta and their collaborators--Rajakar, Al-badr and Al-shams. We are very grateful to India for its support to us in those days of our miseries. But what's happening today and what happened just after our Liberation War?
In the early years of our independence, when the whole nation was trying to rebuild the infrastructure and economy of a new-born country, which was totally destroyed by the Pakistani occupation forces, India inaugurated the world's most harmful "Farakka Barrage" on the common river Ganga to deprive Bangladesh of its legitimate share of water. As a result, the northern region of our country has almost become a desert. India is also withdrawing a huge quantity of water from the river Teesta by building a barrage at Gojoldoba point to gear-up the desertification process of our fertile agricultural land. Now they are planning to build Tipaimukh dam on the river Barak ignoring all international laws of water sharing.
On the other hand, BSF, their border security forces, are randomly killing our innocent people at the border. Now our question is, how long will it continue? Bangladesh is not a province of India; it is an independent and sovereign state. India's brutality has already crossed every limit. We want to see an end of this injustice immediately.