BDR Carnage Trial

Jawans threatened to shoot officer's wife if she locked doors

26 December 2011, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

The jawans, during the carnage at the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles headquarters on February 25-26, 2009, broke open into an army officer's house and threatened to shoot his pregnant wife if she kept the doors locked. During this time, the intelligence officer Major Kamrul Hasan of the then 13 rifle battalion was hiding in a foxhole inside a room. The details came during the cross-examination of Kamrul by the defense lawyers yesterday after he gave his deposition on the last day of proceedings at Metropolitan Sessions Judge's court, temporarily set up in the city's Alia Madrassa at Bakshibazar. Around 3:00am on February 26, the then home minister arrived and asked Kamrul's wife to come out. But Kamrul's wife did not come out or disclose his location. When defense lawyers yesterday questioned this action, Kamrul replied that the jawans were with the minister all the time. “My wife did not disclose my location over fears that the jawans might kill me once the minister went away.” Kamrul showed a heavy machine-gun, a light machine-gun, a short machine-gun and a pistol as samples of those used during the carnage. He, however, did not implicate anyone out of the 824 accused for using the weapons. The court was adjourned till today. Seventy-four people, including 57 army officers, were killed during the carnage.