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Mutiny ends as tanks enter city: Police takes over Peelkhana armoury as BDR rebels surrender: 11 bodies of army officials recovered: Fate of 127 still unknown
Mamunur Rashid
A mutiny by thousands of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) guards ended through their surrender yesterday, after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warned they were on a "suicidal" path that could only end in bloodshed, ending a 34-hour-long holdup at the besieged Headquarters.
Hours after tanks rolled into the capital and the troops have taken to the streets in the city after 50 people were killed as mutinous soldiers fired weapons in a mutiny.
Sources said, at least 11 bodies were recovered out of 169 army officials who were reportedly taken hostage during the mutiny at the Pilkhana's in the BDR HQ.  |
PM asks BDR rebels: Surrender arms or face tough action
UNB, Dhaka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday categorically asked the BDR rebels to immediately surrender arms and go back to barracks, failing which she warned of tough action against them in national interest.
"Lay down arms forthwith and go back to barracks. Otherwise, I will be compelled to take any measure for the interest of the countrymen. Don't force me to take that step," she told the mutineers through her address to the nation over television and radio. |
Security around PM’s residence strengthened
Staff Reporter
Security around the official residence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Jamuna, at Hare Road was strengthened yesterday as a stand-off was continuing at the BDR Headquarters.
In the afternoon, deployment of members of the President's Guard Regiment (PGR), responsible to provide security to her, have been enhanced at the residence. Huge number of RAB personnel were deployed surrounded the residence.
At about 1:30pm, increased number of PGR members were found deploying. A guards regiment jeep is parked horizontally at the gate to the residence of the prime minister. |
Revolt spreads outside Dhaka
UNB, Dhaka
Trouble reportedly broke out at BDR camps in Rajshahi, Khulna, Chittagong, Sylhet, Feni, Naogaon, Satkhira, Dinajpur and Thakurgaon yesterday morning in a chain reaction to the bloody revolt at the Bangladesh Rifles Headquarters in Dhaka.
In Rajshahi, BDR troops of the sector headquarters staged demonstrations and opened fire on Thursday morning in support of the demands of their colleagues who staged a bloody revolt at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters in Dhaka. |
Residents around: BDR headquarters asked to vacate their homes
Staff Reporter
The residents living around three kilometres radius of BDR headquarters in Pilkhana have been asked to leave their respective houses as precaution to avoid casualties when the army troops with tanks and armoured vehicles kept in zeroing in on the BDR headquarters after 2 pm deadline for the mutineers to lay down arms was over.
Army troops had been asking people by loudspeaker to leave the areas of 3 kilometres around the BDR headquarter complex from early afternoon yesterday. |
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Internet Edition. February 27, 2009, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
