Horror numbs Nation after Brutal Massacre of Senior Military Officers

[Rayne]

I hope this is nowhere near where you live, Roshiq...I also hope it doesn't get close to you...Are you in any danger?

[roshiq]

Originally Posted by Rayne

I hope this is nowhere near where you live, Roshiq...I also hope it doesn't get close to you...Are you in any danger?

No..it doesn't. It's almost on the opposite part of the city where we live. But the sad thing is there are many residential areas, shopping malls, schools and University campuses around the BDR Headquarter. Just before the BDR soldiers surrendered Thursday evening, the heavy army troops from 2 nearby cantonment almost prepared to attack & crackdown the headquarter. So they started miking and requesting/suggesting the local people to leave their residents and go somewhere else other than within the 3 to 4 kilometers of BDR HC surrounding areas. At that point of time everybody was quite sure that there will be a war! So people were running scared outside their houses as no local transport facilities were available that time. Some of my friends live in those nearby areas and they are pretty safe now as they went to their different relative's houses and stayed out there as long the situation calms down.

Updates:
Ten more bodies including one of a woman were retrieved from three mass graves found on the BDR headquarters premises today (Saturday). Three of the deceased were identified as Naznin Shakil Shipu, wife of the slain BDR chief Maj Gen Shakil Ahmed, Maj Mosharraf and Maj Mokbul. Others' identity could not be known immediately.
Besides, two more bodies were recovered from the BDR headquarters area this morning.
Rescuers searching for dozens of officers still missing after a mutiny by border guards uncovered two more mass graves on the BDR headquarters compound this morning.

[roshiq]

Most of the BDR Jawaans who killed the army officers during the BDR "mutiny" genocide were quite young and most of the killings were carried out and over between 10:30 to 11:00 am (Feb 25, 2009), immediately after the chaos started at Darbar Hall at the BDR headquarters.

This eyewitness account of that fateful day came from a survivor officer, Lt. Colonel Shams, commander of Battalion-44, as he recounted what he saw in an interview published in several newspapers.

Lt Col Shams said when the Director General of BDR Shakil Ahmed was delivering his speech at the Darbar, a Jawan aimed an SMG rifle at the DG and he (Lt Col Shams) jumped up and pushed this man over, who was visibly unable to fire and was trembling as he approached the DG. As a chaos ensued, the army officers were sent out to calm down the Jawaans who had left the hall. Once outside, Lt Col Shams noticed a group of young Jawans, all firing their guns approaching the Darbar Hall from gate number 5.
During the mayhem that followed, some BDR JCO from battalion 44, including Subeder Saiful, Siraj and Ismail, told Shams that the situation was out of control and helped him escape the scene, taking him to their quarters at Al Beruni Bhaban.
As he was escaping, Lt Col Shams saw a Grey-colored pick-up approaching the Darbar Hall from the gate number 5, apparently loaded with boxes of ammunition. Shams said that he had never seen such a pickup used in either the BDR or the army. By the time he had reached Al Beruni Bhaban, he could hear the sound of firing at the Darbar hall.
"It was between 10:30 am to 11:00 am and I assume most of the officers were killed during that time," he said in the interview.
"The Jawans took me to their house and told me that my life would be in no danger as long as they were alive. They took off my badge and uniform and gave me clothes to wear. I hid in that house for the next two days,' the Lt Col said. "Whenever any rebelling Jawans came near the house to search, I would hide in the floor compartment of a box bed," Shams said expressing his gratitude to those who saved his life at such a time.
During the evening of February 25, Shams said he saw cleaners going into the Darbar Hall with cloths and he also recalls seeing ambulances going there and he realized that these people were going to clean up the place and remove the bodies of the officers killed.
Though the rebels had at the beginning announced over microphones that they had enough ammunition to continue to fight for six months, the next morning (Thursday) they began to call on all not to misuse the bullets.
Lt Col Shams said that the situation inside the BDR headquarters seemed to calm down on February 26 following the prime minister's speech that was aired on television. "The prime minister's speech worked like a wonder. The tension seemed to ease. Groups of Jawans started surrendering arms following the speech," the Lt Col said in the interview. Shams said that most of the Jawans appeared gloomy to him, following the prime minister's speech.
Shams also saw many Jawans fleeing the BDR headquarters in civil clothes on the second day of the mutiny.

Other Updates

[roshiq]

4 days ago Mutinous soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) stand inside their headquarter


Representatives of the BDR rebel maniacs emerge from the compound on the way to negotiate & place their demands with Govt. Personnel.


People scared & running while BDR indiscriminately firing outside the BDR compound

[Kemal]

Jesus, I haven't heard anything about this.

This is what happens when social order breaks down. . .

[roshiq]

Originally Posted by Kemal

Jesus, I haven't heard anything about this.

This is what happens when social order breaks down. . .

yeah, you are right but here instead of 'social order' the defense system specially the border security & guard forces were almost about to breaks down.

It was a bloody conspiracy of the 'forces' that doesn't want to see Bangladesh as a liberal country and tries to make a chaos to crackdown the political, social & economical stability to prove it's independence "Unworthy" to the rest of the world. There are sufficient evidences already coming from the interrogation and eye witnesses of survived army personnel that there was a group of outside people in very few in numbers who came via an unknown Grey Colored Jeep and supplied the weapons of initial attack. After that, they broke down the Weapon Storage Room and handed the machine guns and other heavy & light weapons to the rebel Jawans.

The government yesterday decided to deploy members of the armed forces across the country indefinitely to help law enforcement agencies arrest the absconding rebels of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and recover the missing firearms and ammunition. The deployment begins today morning in aid of the civil administration under the 'Operation Rebel Hunt' mission, sources said.
A notice was issued by the home ministry in this regard hours after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held talks with army officers at Sena Kunja at the Dhaka Cantonment yesterday. The forces will be stationed at district headquarters and carry out operations on the basis of specific information from their intelligence, said sources.
Hasina told the House last night that her government had already assigned members of army, Rab and police to hunt down the absconding rebels.
Following the government notice, verbal messages had already been conveyed to the cantonments across the country to prepare the forces for the operation, said sources in the armed forces division. The forcers were preparing themselves so that they could reach their destinations by today morning, the sources added.
"The operation will continue until its goal is achieved," said a mid-ranking army official wishing anonymity.
"The army will help the law enforcement agencies to arrest the absconding rebels and recover firearms," Deputy Secretary (political) of home ministry, Javed Ahmed told The Daily Star last night.
When asked about the duration of deployment of the armed forces, he said no time limit had been set for it. "They will be withdrawn once the situation comes under control," he added.
A number of BDR personnel have been on the run while many arms and ammunition remain missing since the Wednesday's mutiny at the BDR headquarters. Meanwhile, the government decided to restructure the probe body formed to investigate the bloody mutiny at the BDR headquarters. Representatives from the home ministry, armed forces division, Rab and police department will be included in it. The government is also working on the modus operandi of the proposed special tribunal for trying the people responsible for the massacre.
Meanwhile, around 2:00pm yesterday a Rab-2 team cordoned off Ganaktoli Lane in the capital and searched around 700 houses for firearms, ammunitions and fugitive BDR jawans, said locals. They detained a man with 30 rounds of bullet at Ganaktoli Lane yesterday. The detainee was Mohammad Yusuf, 35, a resident of the area. Director of Rab's Legal and Media Wing AK Azad said on government order Rab was conducting a massive drive to capture the rebel BDR jawans since February 26.

[roshiq]

Feb 25 & Feb 26, 2009:

A troop of Bangladesh Army was waiting on the streets of Dhaka for the order to attack & crackdown the BDR HC. But finally Govt. didn't release the order, they solved the matter in a political way.









While entering the BDR HC after the rebel BDR Jawans surrenders... a Soldier in tears just After knowing that several senior respected Army Officers have been already brutally killed through a genocide.