BSS, Dhaka :
The nation is to mourn today with a heavy heart the deaths of February 25-26, 2009 Pilkhana carnage victims, including 57 army officers who lost their lives while serving the paramilitary frontier force seven years ago.
Representatives of the President and the Prime Minister, State Minister for Home Affairs, chiefs of three services, senior home secretary and BGB director general will lay floral
wreaths at the Military Graveyard in Banani from 9am today, a BGB press release sad.
Bangladesh Army will arrange the programme.
To mark the anniversary, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), the then Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) during the carnage, took up an elaborate programme.
The day-long mourning will begin with Khatme Quran at all the BGB mosques after Fazr prayer today. Milad and doa mahfils will also be held at Pilkhana and all units of the frontier force for eternal peace of the departed souls.
On February 26, special doa and milad-mahfil will be held at Bir-Uttam Fazlur Rahman Khandker auditorium in Philkhana at 4.30pm.
Senior Home Secretary, Director General of BGB, close relatives of the martyrs, officers working at the Philkhana, GCO and other employees, among others, will participate in the function.
On this day February 25, several hundred BDR soldiers took up weapons against their superior officers at Darbar Hall coinciding with the “BDR Week” inside the Pilkhana and killed 74 people including the then BDR chief Major General Shakil Ahmed.
The 36-hour-long mutiny finally ended on the next day when the mutineers were forced to lay down their weapons. On January 23, 2011, the BDR was renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) under a massive reconstruction campaign, also changing with uniform, flag and monogram and with a new law stipulating death for mutiny as part of efforts to free the force from the rebellion stigma.
The nation is to mourn today with a heavy heart the deaths of February 25-26, 2009 Pilkhana carnage victims, including 57 army officers who lost their lives while serving the paramilitary frontier force seven years ago.
Representatives of the President and the Prime Minister, State Minister for Home Affairs, chiefs of three services, senior home secretary and BGB director general will lay floral
wreaths at the Military Graveyard in Banani from 9am today, a BGB press release sad.
Bangladesh Army will arrange the programme.
To mark the anniversary, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), the then Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) during the carnage, took up an elaborate programme.
The day-long mourning will begin with Khatme Quran at all the BGB mosques after Fazr prayer today. Milad and doa mahfils will also be held at Pilkhana and all units of the frontier force for eternal peace of the departed souls.
On February 26, special doa and milad-mahfil will be held at Bir-Uttam Fazlur Rahman Khandker auditorium in Philkhana at 4.30pm.
Senior Home Secretary, Director General of BGB, close relatives of the martyrs, officers working at the Philkhana, GCO and other employees, among others, will participate in the function.
On this day February 25, several hundred BDR soldiers took up weapons against their superior officers at Darbar Hall coinciding with the “BDR Week” inside the Pilkhana and killed 74 people including the then BDR chief Major General Shakil Ahmed.
The 36-hour-long mutiny finally ended on the next day when the mutineers were forced to lay down their weapons. On January 23, 2011, the BDR was renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) under a massive reconstruction campaign, also changing with uniform, flag and monogram and with a new law stipulating death for mutiny as part of efforts to free the force from the rebellion stigma.
