Pilkhana carnage aimed at making Bdesh dysfunctional
Holiday Report
Terming Pilkhana carnage part of a deep-rooted conspiracy, the main opposition BNP Monday alleged that the gruesome incident had been orchestrated to turn Bangladesh into a failed, dysfunctional and fragile state.
The Pilkhana carnage is not an isolated incident; it's rather part of a farsighted conspiracy. The attack was made on the BDR (now BGB) force to weaken Bangladesh's national security and thus make it a failed, dysfunctional and feeble country, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told a discussion.
Opposition BNP arranged the discussion at the Institute of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh in the city marking the 4th anniversary of the Pilkhana massacre.
On this day in 2009, several hundred BDR, now renamed BGB, members took up arms against their superiors at the Pilkhana Darbar Hall and killed 74 people, including 57 army officers and then BDR chief Maj Gen Shakil Ahmed. Mirza Fakhrul paid homage to the slain army officers and prayed for salvation of their departed souls.
Describing the Pilkhana incident as a stigmatised chapter for the nation, the BNP leader said the nation had to lose 57 brilliant army officers in just 24 hours. "We didn't lose so many army officers even during our liberation war."Why hasn't the investigation report of the army on the incident made public? Why and to protect who's interest part of the government investigation report has not been made public?" he questioned.
Claiming that BNP leader Nasiruddin Pintu and its women wing leader Suraiya Begum have been kept in jail for four years falsely implicating them in the incident, the BNP spokesman demanded their immediate release.
Mirza Fakhrul said Bangladesh is passing through a critical time as the government is in a planned way pushing the country towards uncertainty and instability by dividing the nation. "The government has made the whole nation hostage to cling to power. When the nation wants to live in peace, the government is unfortunately trying to push the country towards instability and a dark tunnel through its conspiracy," the BNP leader said.
Meanwhile, families of the army officers assassinated in the February 2009 BDR mutiny expressed their dissatisfaction at the snails pace of the ongoing trial of the carnage case. The families, aggrieved at the prosecutions failure to track the plotters of the massacre, also lambasted the government for its indifference towards the drawn-out trial procedures that had already eaten up long four years.
A number of the families made the reactions after offering prayers and tributes at the Banani Military Graveyard in the city to mark the fourth anniversary of the mutiny in Bangladesh Rifles, now renamed Border Guard Bangladesh.
Seventy-five people, comprising 57 serving army officers, a retired army official, wives of two army officers, nine BDR soldiers, five civilians, an army soldier, and a police constable, were killed in the Peelkhana headquarters of the border guards when the rank and file of the paramilitary force took up arms against their officers deputed from the army.
Several hundred families of both the victims of the mutiny and the accused mutineers have been waiting for justice as trial of 847 people, including 23 civilians, on criminal charges, including murder, is still going on.
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Terming Pilkhana carnage part of a deep-rooted conspiracy, the main opposition BNP Monday alleged that the gruesome incident had been orchestrated to turn Bangladesh into a failed, dysfunctional and fragile state.
The Pilkhana carnage is not an isolated incident; it's rather part of a farsighted conspiracy. The attack was made on the BDR (now BGB) force to weaken Bangladesh's national security and thus make it a failed, dysfunctional and feeble country, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told a discussion.
Opposition BNP arranged the discussion at the Institute of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh in the city marking the 4th anniversary of the Pilkhana massacre.
On this day in 2009, several hundred BDR, now renamed BGB, members took up arms against their superiors at the Pilkhana Darbar Hall and killed 74 people, including 57 army officers and then BDR chief Maj Gen Shakil Ahmed. Mirza Fakhrul paid homage to the slain army officers and prayed for salvation of their departed souls.
Describing the Pilkhana incident as a stigmatised chapter for the nation, the BNP leader said the nation had to lose 57 brilliant army officers in just 24 hours. "We didn't lose so many army officers even during our liberation war."Why hasn't the investigation report of the army on the incident made public? Why and to protect who's interest part of the government investigation report has not been made public?" he questioned.
Claiming that BNP leader Nasiruddin Pintu and its women wing leader Suraiya Begum have been kept in jail for four years falsely implicating them in the incident, the BNP spokesman demanded their immediate release.
Mirza Fakhrul said Bangladesh is passing through a critical time as the government is in a planned way pushing the country towards uncertainty and instability by dividing the nation. "The government has made the whole nation hostage to cling to power. When the nation wants to live in peace, the government is unfortunately trying to push the country towards instability and a dark tunnel through its conspiracy," the BNP leader said.
Meanwhile, families of the army officers assassinated in the February 2009 BDR mutiny expressed their dissatisfaction at the snails pace of the ongoing trial of the carnage case. The families, aggrieved at the prosecutions failure to track the plotters of the massacre, also lambasted the government for its indifference towards the drawn-out trial procedures that had already eaten up long four years.
A number of the families made the reactions after offering prayers and tributes at the Banani Military Graveyard in the city to mark the fourth anniversary of the mutiny in Bangladesh Rifles, now renamed Border Guard Bangladesh.
Seventy-five people, comprising 57 serving army officers, a retired army official, wives of two army officers, nine BDR soldiers, five civilians, an army soldier, and a police constable, were killed in the Peelkhana headquarters of the border guards when the rank and file of the paramilitary force took up arms against their officers deputed from the army.
Several hundred families of both the victims of the mutiny and the accused mutineers have been waiting for justice as trial of 847 people, including 23 civilians, on criminal charges, including murder, is still going on.
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