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Bangladesh seeks FBI, Scotland Yard help with mutiny probe
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 01 - 03 - 2009


Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed on
Sunday said her government has sought international assistance to
probe the killing of army officers during a mutiny by paramilitary
border guards against their commanders four days previously, according to dpa.
"I have sought support from the Federal Bureau of Investigation of
the United States and the Scotland Yard of Britain for thorough
investigation into the mayhem by the unruly soldiers," Hasina told
Parliament.
She said the government levelled charges against more than 1,000
troops suspected of having participated in a mutiny in the
headquarters of the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) border
guards that left more than 70 dead.
Hasina also talked to the Assistant Secretary to the US State
Department for South and Central Asia, Richard A Boucher, who phoned
her to discuss Wednesday's events.
Parliament unanimously adopted a motion of condolence in the
presence Sunday, after observing three days of mourning for the army
officers slain in the attack.
Hasina noted it had been a "well planned" attack on a discipline
force that had been intended to dismantle her two-month old
government and to destabilize the country that returned to democracy
after two years of rule by a military-backed administration.
"We want a complete investigation to stop the recurrence of such
violent incidents," Hasina said.
Troops will be deployed across the country under the Operation
Rebel Hunt, expected to begin some time late Sunday, to locate
absconders and recover firearms missing from the Bangladesh Rifles
(BDR) headquarters.
Meanwhile, the authorities in Bangladesh were to charge more than
1,000 soldiers Sunday. Police commander Nabo Jyoti Kisha lodged the
charges against troopers led by six junior officers of the Bangladesh
Rifles (BDR) force, accusing them of rebellion against their
commanders.
The soldiers face charges of the premeditated murder of army
officers and their spouses with firearms and explosives.
The BDR soldiers are also accused of hostage-taking, as well as
attempting to dispose of the bodies of their victims by fire, burying
them in mass graves and dumping them into sewage.
"The plaintiff named six of the accused while 1,000 more are
unnamed," police spokesman Tariqul Islam said.
Bangladesh has decided to enact new legislation in order to
prosecute the mutineers in a speedy trial.
The death toll in the rebellion rose to 73, when a body was
recovered from a drain outside the headquarters complex Sunday.
The rescue teams on Sunday were still searching for some 72
officers still missing.
The officers were attending an annual conference at the
headquarters of the BDR force in central Dhaka, when they were taken
hostage by the rebels.
The mutiny ended late Thursday with the surrender of the
mutineers, 35 hours after rebel soldiers opened fire on their
officers at the meeting where soldiers were allowed to air
grievances.
Several hundred enlisted men, enraged over a pay dispute and
alleged repression and corruption by the commanders of the 67,000-
strong force, took the officers hostage.
Meanwhile, several thousand paramilitary soldiers returned to the
headquarters in response to a government call to report for duty
after having fled their stations. They claimed not to have been
involved in the mutiny.


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