BDR Mutiny Case
4 give deposition against 46
Slain army officers were piled on two vans by mutineers, carried to the backyard of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) hospital and dumped into mass graves on the night of February 25, 2009, a sepoy told a special court yesterday.
Sepoy Golam Kibria, forced to dig one of the three graves but later managed to flee, also said he saw 11 of the total 113 accused from Rifle Security Unit spontaneously digging the graves.
"They were cheering and hurling abusive words at the bodies,” said Kibria, one of the four witnesses giving statements against 46 mutineers yesterday.
The 46 accused later cross-examined the witnesses at the special court-7 set up at 13 Rifle Battalion at BGB headquarters in city's Pilkhana.
BGB Director General Maj Gen Md Rafiqul Islam presided over the court set up to try the 113 alleged mutineers of the then Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Security Unit.
The mutineers initially intended to burn the bodies in an oxidation plant but could not as the machine was out-of-order, Kibria said.
Meanwhile, Prosecutor Lt Col Tariq Imam Siddique of BGB special court-10 at Darbar Hall in Pilkhana read out charges relating to mutiny against 211 of the total 310 accused jawans of 36 Rifles Battalion.
Both special courts adjourned trial proceedings till February 22.
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