CM Kajawl :
The sixth anniversary of BDR carnage at Pilkhana was observed on Wednesday.
The members of the affected families, Army, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and top government officials visited the Banani graveyard and placed wreaths at their graves to pay tribute to the victims.
The air was thick with the emotions when the family members and relatives of the victims flocked at the graveyard and remembered their beloved ones on the occasion.
They demanded the rapid execution of the killers, saying that the culprits who pulled strings behind the curtain should brought to justice also. They sought exemplary punishment for the killers so that no such incident can place in the country.
A total of 74 people, including 57 army officials, were killed in a mutiny, organized by a group of disgruntled BDR (presently named as BGB) jawans at Pilkhana in Dhaka on February 25-26 in 2009.
On behalf of the President and Prime Minister, their Military Secretaries placed wreaths at the graves of the victims.
Among others, Chief of Army Staff General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan, Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Muhammad Farid Habib, Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Muhammad Enamul Bari, Director General of BGB Major General Aziz Ahmed, Home Secretary Md Mozammel Haque also paid their tributes at the Banani Graveyard. They also observed one minute silence and prayed for the salvation of the departed souls.
Apart from that, milad mahfil and special munajat were offered at the central mosques of all cantonments across the country. It may be noted that a group of BDR people stormed into the Darbar Hall during the annual conference in the morning on February 25, 2009 and swooped on the BDR officers with firearms. They killed 57 officers including its director general Major General Shakil Ahmed. They held hostage the family members of the BDR officials.
The Jawans also vandalized property and looted valuables in the Pilkhana. The mutiny ended after 36 hours with most of the rebelling soldiers fleeing BDR headquarters, surrendering their arms and releasing the hostages after a series of discussions and negotiations with the government.
A Dhaka court later sentenced 152 people to death and 161 to life imprisonment, while another 256 people were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment ranging from three to 10 years. The court also acquitted 277 of the charges.
Though six years has elapsed after the incident, no convict was executed so far as their appeal petitions against death penalty is pending with the higher court. After that gruesome incident, BDR was restructured and renamed as BGB.
The sixth anniversary of BDR carnage at Pilkhana was observed on Wednesday.
The members of the affected families, Army, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and top government officials visited the Banani graveyard and placed wreaths at their graves to pay tribute to the victims.
The air was thick with the emotions when the family members and relatives of the victims flocked at the graveyard and remembered their beloved ones on the occasion.
They demanded the rapid execution of the killers, saying that the culprits who pulled strings behind the curtain should brought to justice also. They sought exemplary punishment for the killers so that no such incident can place in the country.
A total of 74 people, including 57 army officials, were killed in a mutiny, organized by a group of disgruntled BDR (presently named as BGB) jawans at Pilkhana in Dhaka on February 25-26 in 2009.
On behalf of the President and Prime Minister, their Military Secretaries placed wreaths at the graves of the victims.
Among others, Chief of Army Staff General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan, Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Muhammad Farid Habib, Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Muhammad Enamul Bari, Director General of BGB Major General Aziz Ahmed, Home Secretary Md Mozammel Haque also paid their tributes at the Banani Graveyard. They also observed one minute silence and prayed for the salvation of the departed souls.
Apart from that, milad mahfil and special munajat were offered at the central mosques of all cantonments across the country. It may be noted that a group of BDR people stormed into the Darbar Hall during the annual conference in the morning on February 25, 2009 and swooped on the BDR officers with firearms. They killed 57 officers including its director general Major General Shakil Ahmed. They held hostage the family members of the BDR officials.
The Jawans also vandalized property and looted valuables in the Pilkhana. The mutiny ended after 36 hours with most of the rebelling soldiers fleeing BDR headquarters, surrendering their arms and releasing the hostages after a series of discussions and negotiations with the government.
A Dhaka court later sentenced 152 people to death and 161 to life imprisonment, while another 256 people were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment ranging from three to 10 years. The court also acquitted 277 of the charges.
Though six years has elapsed after the incident, no convict was executed so far as their appeal petitions against death penalty is pending with the higher court. After that gruesome incident, BDR was restructured and renamed as BGB.
