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Mutineer border guards to face trial

Mutineer border guards to face trial

A Bangladeshi state prosecutor has said 900 border guards will be tried on charges of murder, looting, arson and torture in connection with the February 2009 mutiny that killed up to 57 army officers and threatened the country's new government.

By News Wires (text)
 

AFP - A Bangladeshi state prosecutor said Wednesday that about 900 border guards would be tried in civil courts on murder, arson and looting charges related to a deadly mutiny last February.
  
"We have found that around 900 Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) soldiers took part in the murder of army officers, looting, arson and the torture of family members of the officers," state prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain Kazal told AFP.
  
"We are in the final stage of the investigation. They will be charged soon," he said, adding that the maximum punishment for such crimes was death by hanging.
  
Seventy-four people, including 57 senior army officers, were killed in the 33-hour siege which threatened Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's newly elected civilian government.

Date created : 24/02/2010 
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