Good stuff! Bangladesh: More than 1000 charged over mutiny

BANGLADESH was in shock yesterday as details of the barbaric mutiny by its border guards were revealed.

Dhaka police have charged more than 1000 members of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) over the mutiny.

The police statement accuses the mutineers of killing army officials and their spouses with firearms and explosives in a "pre-planned way". They are also charged with illegally taking hostages and setting on fire and hiding dead bodies.

The document names six personnel from the BDR as leaders of the revolt. However, Muhammad Nowsher Ali, joint commissioner (crime) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said the police "would identify other members who were involved in the carnage," the Bangladesh newspaper the Daily Star reported.

Emergency services workers were still searching for bodies at the headquarters of the BDR, four days after the revolt by rank-and-file members of the country's 45,000 member paramilitary border force.

is feared more than 130 people were killed during the mutiny, mostly officers from the army. By yesterday about 80 bodies had been recovered but another 50 officers were reportedly still missing. Three days of official mourning in Bangladesh ended last night.

Many of the dead officers were found in two shallow mass graves. They included the director-general of the BDR, Major-General Shakil Ahmed. His colonial bungalow at BDR headquarters was ransacked by rebels, and the army said his wife had been raped and killed.

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Good stuff! Bangladesh: More than 1000 charged over mutiny

Good stuff! Bangladesh: More than 1000 charged over mutiny

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