The families of the victims of the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at the erstwhile BDR headquarters in the capital’s Pilkhana area on Wednesday urged the government to publish the names of the perpetrators and conspirators mentioned in the National Independent Investigation Commission report...
The families of the victims of the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at the erstwhile BDR headquarters in the capital’s Pilkhana area have demanded punishment for the perpetrators and conspirators...
Home minister Salahuddin Ahmed on Monday said that the government would form a commission to reinvestigate the 2009 carnage at Pilkhana, the headquarters of the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles now known as Border Guard Bangladesh, in Dhaka.
ALM Fazlur Rahman, a retired major general and freedom fighter who was a former director general of the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles, headed the national independent investigation commission on the 2009 carnage in the border force. He tells...
The families of the victims of the 2009 carnage at Pilkhana, the headquarters of the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles, on Monday demanded immediate prosecution of those named in the report of the National Independent Investigation Commission formed to probe the incident.
THE findings of the re-investigation of the border force rebellion of 2009 that the then ruling Awami League and a foreign power were directly involved in the incident are both horrific and seditious. The soldiers of the force, then known as the Bangladesh Rifles and renamed after the incident as the Border Guard Bangladesh, took up arms against their commanding officers...
The members of erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles, who were dismissed and imprisoned after the 2009 BDR massacre, on Sunday announced that they would hold a sit-in programme in front of chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus’s official residence Jamuna in the capital today...
WHILE the 2009 carnage in the Bangladesh Rifles, later renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh, remains a shocking incident, leaving an indelible scar, the failure to establish the motive and the plotters of the incident and to bring them to justice is unsettling. The rebellion, which began in the border guard headquarters on February 25 and spilled over to some other sector...
Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman on Tuesday urged all not to disrupt the trial process of 2009 Pilkhana massacre case, saying that it was entirely carried out by members of the then Bangladesh Rifles.
Voices for justice over the killings of 74 people, including 57 army officers, in the then Bangladesh Rifles headquarters at the capital’s Pilkhana during the 2009 BDR mutiny have been getting louder since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime on August 5, 2024 amid a mass uprising.
COLONEL Anisuzzaman was a brave soldier, a loving father, a devoted husband and a caring son. He lived to age 50 when his life was cut short by a hail of bullets from rebellious jawans during the bloody Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutiny on February 25, 2009. He died valiantly along with his courageous colleagues while doing his job serving his country...
THE tragic events of February 2009 in Bangladesh, known as the BDR Massacre, remain one of the most devastating incidents in the nation’s history, leaving an indelible scar on the national psyche. At the outset, it is essential to clarify that this was not a mere mutiny but a well-orchestrated massacre. Exploiting existing grievances within the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR)...
Families of the victims of the February 25-26, 2009 rebellion in the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles on Wednesday urged not to release death row and life term convicts in murder case without applying law properly...
The members of erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles, who were dismissed and imprisoned after the 2009 BDR massacre, and their families on Wednesday suspended their protests demanding reinstatement of their jobs and the release of the detained BDR members...
The members of erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles, who were dismissed and imprisoned after the 2009 BDR massacre, and their families on Tuesday staged a sit-in at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka to press home their demands including their colleagues’ release and job reinstatement...
Survivors and families of the victims of February 25–26, 2009 rebellion in the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles on Wednesday at a press conference in Dhaka said that it would be unjust if all imprisoned and death row convicts were released on a wholesale basis as all BDR soldiers were not innocent...
A total of 178 former members of the then Bangladesh Rifles were released from different jails on Thursday, four days after they were granted bail in an explosive case linked to the 2009 BDR mutiny.
A Dhaka court on Sunday granted bail to at least 200 former Bangladesh Rifles soldiers in an explosive case filed over the BDR mutiny. All these soldiers have already been acquitted by both the trial court and...
Families of former Bangladesh Rifles soldiers, dismissed and imprisoned after the 2009 BDR massacre, blocked the Shahbagh crossing on Wednesday, demanding reinstatement in the force, now renamed as the Border Guard Bangladesh...
Former director general of the Border Guard Bangladesh, then known as Bangladesh Rifles, retired lieutenant general Md Mainul Islam, was barred at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport while attempting to travel abroad.
The families of 22 victims of the 2009 carnage at then Bangladesh Rifles headquarters filed a complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor on Thursday accusing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her defense adviser Tarique Ahmed Siddique, former army chief Moneen U Ahmed and 55 others of crimes against humanity and genocide...
THE massacre at the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles, now renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh, on February 25, 2009, stands as harrowing tragedy in Bangladesh’s history. Fifty-seven army officers were murdered by the border guards. Alongside the officers, several civilians fell victim to the barbarity. The crime was marked by unimaginable...
Gono Odhikar Parishad faction on Wednesday demanded formation of a national enquiry commission for fresh investigation into then Bangladesh Rifles killings that took place at the then BDR headquarters in Dhaka on February 25, 2009...
Families of the then Bangladesh Rifles members jailed over the 2009 BDR mutiny on Friday demanded re-investigation into their cases.
The High Court on Monday directed the government to submit a report on December 15 on the formation of a National Independent Investigation Committee to thoroughly investigate the February 25–26, 2009, massacre at the then Bangladesh Rifles headquarters...
The High Court on Tuesday asked the interim government to explain why a National Independent Investigation Committee should not be formed to thoroughly investigate the massacre at the then...
Families of the victims of the February 25–26, 2009 rebellion in the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles and sacked BDR members on Saturday demanded a commission to ensure punishment for actual perpetrators...
THAT the Awami League had a master plan to capture power forever is discerned from some deplorable incidents that happened just after it assumed office in 2009. The party president, Sheikh Hasina, along with her leaders, did not hesitate even a little to kill our 57 patriotic army officers. Almost all the party leaders knew about what happened in the...
Breaking his silence for the past 15 years following the February 25–26, 2009 rebellion in the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles, former army general Moeen U Ahmed demanded...
Families of the victims of the February 25–26, 2009 rebellion in the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles demanded to the interim government a fresh inquiry into the killing of 75 people, including...