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Mutiny ends as tanks enter city: Police takes over Peelkhana armoury as BD
rebels surrender
11 bodies of army officials recovered: Fate of 127 still unknown
Friday February 27 2009 01:03:40 AM BDT
A mutiny by thousands of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) guards ended through their surrender yesterday, after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warned they were on a "suicidal" path that could only end in bloodshed, ending a 34-hour-long holdup at the besieged Headquarters.(The New Nation)
Hours after tanks rolled into the capital and the troops have taken to the streets in the city after 50 people were killed as mutinous soldiers fired weapons in a mutiny.
Sources said, at least 11 bodies were recovered out of 169 army officials who were reportedly taken hostage during the mutiny at the Pilkhana's in the BDR HQ. Some 20 army officers were released yesterday.
'Lay down your guns immediately and go back to barracks. Do not force me to take tough actions or push my patience beyond tolerable limits,' PM Sheikh Hasina said.
However, MP Meher Afroz Chumki told the reporters that no army officials had remained in BDR HQ.
"All the troops have surrendered their weapons and gone back to their barracks," the Prime Minister's spokesman, Abul Kalam Azad said.
The Armed Police Battalion took control of the armoury of the BDR Headquarters.
All the remaining hostages made since the mutiny began at the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters in Dhaka had been freed, he added.
Five teams were formed to rescue the hostages held inside the headquarters and ensure treatment of those injured in the bloody mutiny by the BDR lower orders. The rescuers already started their rescue operation and were pulling out the injured onto Red Crescent ambulances to ferry to hospitals, said another spokesman.
The team members are Finance Minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhit, Home Minister Sahara Khatun, State Minister Jahangir Kabir Nanok, parliament Whip Mirza Azam and Segupta Yasmin Emily and MPs Meher Afroz Chumki, Mahbub Ara Guinea and Waresat Hossain Belal.
The DAD Touhid Shubader has been made the acting Commander of BDR.
A source of Armed forces said about 127 army officials were still missing. At least 168 army officials with DG of BDR Shakil Ahmad were attending a meeting at Darbar Hall to celebrate the BDR week.
At least 50 people were feared killed in Wednesday's BDR revolt yesterday estimated State Minister for Law Advocate Quamrul Islam.
Some 20 army officers who had been kept as hostages in the BDR Headquarters since yesterday morning were released around 5:30pm yesterday.
Lt Col Rouf, Lt Col Salam, Lt Col Sayed Kamruzzaman, Col Shams, Col Sayed, Maj Masud, Maj Akram, Maj Jaman, Maj Mokhles, Maj Munir, Maj Yahia, Maj Aslam, Maj Mahbub, Maj Ali Ashraf, Maj Shah Alam, Maj Reaz, Maj Jalil and Maj Zahid are among them,
The guards agreed to lay down their weapons after the government assured them an amnesty and agreed to look into their demands. But tanks had to be sent in to the city in a show of force to convince the mutineers to give up their guns.
Six more bodies of yesterday mutiny at the BDR Headquarters were found this (Thursday) morning at sluice gate in front of Nawabganj Park near the headquarters in the capital.
Five of them were identified as Lt Col Anisuzzaman, Lt Col Kamruzzaman, Maj Mahbub, Col Zahid and Col Touhid. The identity of the other could not be known immediately.
Earlier, bodies of the two officers -- Col Mujibul Huq and Lt Col Enayetul Haq -- were recovered from a sewerage system outside the BDR headquarters. But their deaths were not officially declared till filing of this report in the yesterday evening.
Another source said additional Director General Brg. Abdul Bari also was killed by the BDR rebels.
As soon as the troops surrendered their arms, the army officers who were held hostage by the mutineers were seen leaving the building. They said that many of their colleagues had been killed in Wednesday's onslaught.
Regular army troops were moved closer to the BDR headquarters as authorities evacuated residents from 3-kilometre-radius of the compound and reinforced the deployment with tanks and heavy armoured vehicles.
The Bangladesh Army deployed tanks close to the headquarters of the border security force in the grip of a violent mutiny by renegade troops.
A military spokesman said the army sent the tanks and armoured personnel carriers close to the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles.
The soldiers' mutiny began early Wednesday at an annual meeting to allow soldiers to air their grievances to their officers. But the enlisted men, enraged over a pay dispute and alleged repression and corruption by commanders, took the officers hostage.
Several hundred mutineers then took control of artillery pieces and other heavy weapons inside the 2.6-square-kilometre compound, located in a densely populated residential area of Dhaka.
Al BDR personnel took part in the rebellion. The condition of many senior officers, including the Rifles chief, Major General Shakil Ahmed, was not known.
Police took control of BDR headquarters yesterday afternoon after the mutineers surrendered their arms and freed army officers and about 150 civilians taken hostages.
Several contingents of police were deployed in and around the border guards' headquarters. Policemen were seen guarding the five entrances.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Naim Ahmed told The New Nation that entire BDR headquarters and its armoury were now under police control.
Police were also patrolling the areas around Pilkhana, deep dark surrounding has be fallen inside BDR HQ.
http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=249243
rebels surrender
11 bodies of army officials recovered: Fate of 127 still unknown
Friday February 27 2009 01:03:40 AM BDT
A mutiny by thousands of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) guards ended through their surrender yesterday, after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warned they were on a "suicidal" path that could only end in bloodshed, ending a 34-hour-long holdup at the besieged Headquarters.(The New Nation)
Hours after tanks rolled into the capital and the troops have taken to the streets in the city after 50 people were killed as mutinous soldiers fired weapons in a mutiny.
Sources said, at least 11 bodies were recovered out of 169 army officials who were reportedly taken hostage during the mutiny at the Pilkhana's in the BDR HQ. Some 20 army officers were released yesterday.
'Lay down your guns immediately and go back to barracks. Do not force me to take tough actions or push my patience beyond tolerable limits,' PM Sheikh Hasina said.
However, MP Meher Afroz Chumki told the reporters that no army officials had remained in BDR HQ.
"All the troops have surrendered their weapons and gone back to their barracks," the Prime Minister's spokesman, Abul Kalam Azad said.
The Armed Police Battalion took control of the armoury of the BDR Headquarters.
All the remaining hostages made since the mutiny began at the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters in Dhaka had been freed, he added.
Five teams were formed to rescue the hostages held inside the headquarters and ensure treatment of those injured in the bloody mutiny by the BDR lower orders. The rescuers already started their rescue operation and were pulling out the injured onto Red Crescent ambulances to ferry to hospitals, said another spokesman.
The team members are Finance Minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhit, Home Minister Sahara Khatun, State Minister Jahangir Kabir Nanok, parliament Whip Mirza Azam and Segupta Yasmin Emily and MPs Meher Afroz Chumki, Mahbub Ara Guinea and Waresat Hossain Belal.
The DAD Touhid Shubader has been made the acting Commander of BDR.
A source of Armed forces said about 127 army officials were still missing. At least 168 army officials with DG of BDR Shakil Ahmad were attending a meeting at Darbar Hall to celebrate the BDR week.
At least 50 people were feared killed in Wednesday's BDR revolt yesterday estimated State Minister for Law Advocate Quamrul Islam.
Some 20 army officers who had been kept as hostages in the BDR Headquarters since yesterday morning were released around 5:30pm yesterday.
Lt Col Rouf, Lt Col Salam, Lt Col Sayed Kamruzzaman, Col Shams, Col Sayed, Maj Masud, Maj Akram, Maj Jaman, Maj Mokhles, Maj Munir, Maj Yahia, Maj Aslam, Maj Mahbub, Maj Ali Ashraf, Maj Shah Alam, Maj Reaz, Maj Jalil and Maj Zahid are among them,
The guards agreed to lay down their weapons after the government assured them an amnesty and agreed to look into their demands. But tanks had to be sent in to the city in a show of force to convince the mutineers to give up their guns.
Six more bodies of yesterday mutiny at the BDR Headquarters were found this (Thursday) morning at sluice gate in front of Nawabganj Park near the headquarters in the capital.
Five of them were identified as Lt Col Anisuzzaman, Lt Col Kamruzzaman, Maj Mahbub, Col Zahid and Col Touhid. The identity of the other could not be known immediately.
Earlier, bodies of the two officers -- Col Mujibul Huq and Lt Col Enayetul Haq -- were recovered from a sewerage system outside the BDR headquarters. But their deaths were not officially declared till filing of this report in the yesterday evening.
Another source said additional Director General Brg. Abdul Bari also was killed by the BDR rebels.
As soon as the troops surrendered their arms, the army officers who were held hostage by the mutineers were seen leaving the building. They said that many of their colleagues had been killed in Wednesday's onslaught.
Regular army troops were moved closer to the BDR headquarters as authorities evacuated residents from 3-kilometre-radius of the compound and reinforced the deployment with tanks and heavy armoured vehicles.
The Bangladesh Army deployed tanks close to the headquarters of the border security force in the grip of a violent mutiny by renegade troops.
A military spokesman said the army sent the tanks and armoured personnel carriers close to the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles.
The soldiers' mutiny began early Wednesday at an annual meeting to allow soldiers to air their grievances to their officers. But the enlisted men, enraged over a pay dispute and alleged repression and corruption by commanders, took the officers hostage.
Several hundred mutineers then took control of artillery pieces and other heavy weapons inside the 2.6-square-kilometre compound, located in a densely populated residential area of Dhaka.
Al BDR personnel took part in the rebellion. The condition of many senior officers, including the Rifles chief, Major General Shakil Ahmed, was not known.
Police took control of BDR headquarters yesterday afternoon after the mutineers surrendered their arms and freed army officers and about 150 civilians taken hostages.
Several contingents of police were deployed in and around the border guards' headquarters. Policemen were seen guarding the five entrances.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Naim Ahmed told The New Nation that entire BDR headquarters and its armoury were now under police control.
Police were also patrolling the areas around Pilkhana, deep dark surrounding has be fallen inside BDR HQ.
http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=249243
