Re-investigation Of BDR Carnage Must Begin: Home Adviser

Lt Gen (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, the home affairs adviser in the interim government, has said the government must launch re-investigation into the BDR carnage soon.

However, it cannot be said whether a commission will be formed to investigate this carnage, he said.

The home affairs adviser made the assertion after visiting Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) headquarters around 9 am on Monday (November 4).

He praised the overall activities of BGB throughout the country after August 5 and directed BGB to be strict on the border.

On 25-26 February 2009, a mutiny in the then Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) left 74 people, including 57 army officers, murdered at its Pilkhana headquarters in the capital.

On 5 November 2013, a Dhaka court handed down death sentences to 150 BDR members and two civilians, and life imprisonment to 160 others in this connection.

On 27 November 2017, the High Court confirmed the death penalty for 139 out of the 152 convicts.

Following the heinous killings of the army officers, the government renamed the mutiny-hit paramilitary force BDR as the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), changing its logo as well as uniform.