Remembering the Pilkhana carnage
The 12th anniversary of the atrocious carnage at the Pilkhana BDR (now BGB) headquarters in the administrative centre is being observed on Thursday.
A total of 74 people, including 57 Army officers, were killed in the carnage beginning upon this day in 2009 2009, reports UNB.
Border Safeguard Bangladesh (BGB) has organised Quran Khawani, doa, and milad mahfil, marking your day.
During the moment, family members and relatives of the slain officers will pay their tributes to the slain Army officers.
BGB flags are appearing flown at half-mast in all Border Safeguard Bangladesh (BGB) installations and all BGB members are actually wearing dark-colored badges to mark the day.
A special prayer and milad mahfil will be held on Fri after Juma prayers at BGB Central Mosque, Dhaka Sector Mosque and Border Guard Medical center Mosque at Pilkhana to get salvation of the departed souls. Residence Minister Asaduzzaman Khan will be there as the principle guest at the BGB Central Mosque.
Besides, the senior secretary to the general public Reliability Division of the house ministry, director basic of BGB, relatives of the martyrs, all officers functioning at Pilkhana, among others, will be a part of the prayers.
On February 25, 2009, several hundred Bangladesh Rifles (nowadays BGB) men staged an armed revolt at the Darbar Hall of the force's Pilkhana headquarters during the three-time "BDR Week". They killed 74 people, including 57 Army officers.
The mutiny finally ended the following day time (Feb 26) with the surrender of firearms, ammunition and grenades through a negotiation between your then federal government and the BDR rebels.
A complete of 58 cases, including one for murder and looting, and the rest of the for mutiny were filed regarding the the mutiny.
Some 152 persons were sentenced to loss of life and 423 others to different jail conditions in the killing circumstance. Besides, 277 accused were acquitted in the country's largest-ever killing circumstance.
Among the convicts, 262 mutineers were sentenced to several jail conditions ranging from 90 days to 19 years, and 161 people, including past due BNP head Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu and local Awami Group head Torab Ali, were jailed forever.
However, 5,926 BDR personnel were sentenced to different jail terms ranging from four a few months to seven years in the 57 mutiny cases.
