Home"She was fifteen. She was climbing a fence. Her body hung there for five hours"
This happened once, on camera
It has happened 764 more times since 2009
The world stopped watching. The killing did not stop..
1 case involved rape.
Each case is one person killed at or near the border. The records hold 898 entries, because a death covered by several newspapers was often entered once per report; those are counted once here, and 5 entries about people who were injured, not killed, are left out. For 631 of them the killing is stated in the source report; for the other 134 it is inferred from the report's description. 1 case has no recorded year and is left out of the yearly chart.
Highest: 98 in 2009. Lowest: 13 in 2018. Never zero. Records for 2026 run to July.
Of the cases with a recorded method.
90% by India's BSF. The other 10% does not exonerate it.
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Median age 30, where recorded. 29 were children under 18; Felani was fifteen.