UNB, Dhaka :
The 9th anniversary of the atrocious carnage at Pilkhana BDR Headquarters in the capital will be observed on Sunday. A total of 74 people, including 57 army officers, were killed in the carnage beginning on this day in 2009.
Floral wreaths will be placed at the graves of the slain army officers at Banani Military Graveyard at 9am on behalf of President Abdul Hamid
and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Later, the Home Minister, the chiefs of the three services, the public security secretary under the Home Ministry and the BGB DG will pay their tributes to the slain army officers.
Special prayers will be offered at the Bir Uttam Fazlur Rahman Khandkar Auditorium inside the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Pilkhana headquarters at 4:45 pm on Monday, seeking divine blessings for the departed souls. On February 25, 2009, several hundred Bangladesh Rifles (now BGB) men rose up in armed revolt at Darbar Hall during the three-day ‘BDR Week’ inside the Pilkhana headquarters and killed 74 people, including 57 deputed army officers.
The mutiny finally ended the following day (Feb 26) with the surrender of the firearms, ammunition and grenades through negotiation between the government and the BDR rebels.
Following the mutiny, the paramilitary force was renamed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).
A total of 58 cases were filed-one for serious crimes, including murder and looting, and the rest for mutiny, in connection with the incident. Some 152 people were sentenced to death and 423 others to different jail terms and 277 others acquitted in the country’s largest-ever killing case.
Among the convicts, 262 mutineers were sentenced to different jail terms starting from three months to 19 years and 161 people, including late BNP leader Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu and local Awami League leader Torab Ali, were sentenced to life imprisonment.
The 9th anniversary of the atrocious carnage at Pilkhana BDR Headquarters in the capital will be observed on Sunday. A total of 74 people, including 57 army officers, were killed in the carnage beginning on this day in 2009.
Floral wreaths will be placed at the graves of the slain army officers at Banani Military Graveyard at 9am on behalf of President Abdul Hamid
and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Later, the Home Minister, the chiefs of the three services, the public security secretary under the Home Ministry and the BGB DG will pay their tributes to the slain army officers.
Special prayers will be offered at the Bir Uttam Fazlur Rahman Khandkar Auditorium inside the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Pilkhana headquarters at 4:45 pm on Monday, seeking divine blessings for the departed souls. On February 25, 2009, several hundred Bangladesh Rifles (now BGB) men rose up in armed revolt at Darbar Hall during the three-day ‘BDR Week’ inside the Pilkhana headquarters and killed 74 people, including 57 deputed army officers.
The mutiny finally ended the following day (Feb 26) with the surrender of the firearms, ammunition and grenades through negotiation between the government and the BDR rebels.
Following the mutiny, the paramilitary force was renamed Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).
A total of 58 cases were filed-one for serious crimes, including murder and looting, and the rest for mutiny, in connection with the incident. Some 152 people were sentenced to death and 423 others to different jail terms and 277 others acquitted in the country’s largest-ever killing case.
Among the convicts, 262 mutineers were sentenced to different jail terms starting from three months to 19 years and 161 people, including late BNP leader Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu and local Awami League leader Torab Ali, were sentenced to life imprisonment.
