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Full investigation into BDR carnage to start soon: Home Adviser
"I want justice for the BDR killings"
Dhaka, Sept 02 - Interim government’s Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday said, full investigation into and fair trial for the BDR (now BGB) killings will commence shortly.
He said this while talking to reporters at his Secretariat office.
"The current government is committed to upholding the rights of the people by ensuring good governance, and establishing justice," said the adviser.
"Not only as a Home Adviser, but also as a common citizen and former member of the Bangladesh Army, I want justice for the BDR killings," he added.
On 25-26 February 2009, a mutiny in the then Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) left 74 people, including 57 army officers, murdered at the Pilkhana Headquarters.
On 5 November 2013, a Dhaka court awarded death sentences to 150 BDR members and two civilians, and life imprisonment to 160 others in the case. On 27 November 2017, the High Court confirmed the death penalty for 139 out of 152 accused.
Following the heinous killings of the army officers at the Pilkhana headquarters, the government renamed the mutiny-hit paramilitary force BDR as Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), changing its logo as well as uniform.-UNB