6 ringleaders identified, 1,000 face murder case

Six Bangladesh Rifles personnel were identified by the police on Sunday as the ringleaders of the 33-hour mutiny that wiped out nearly the entire batch of Army officers serving in the paramilitary force.

The police on Sunday filed murder charges against 1,000 members of the BDR, initially suspecting six of them to have led the rebellion. “We accused them of killing the officers and their family members in a planned manner,” an official at Dhaka’s Lalbagh police station said.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed visited the headquarters of the Bangladesh Army on Sunday and spent three hours there to calm frayed tempers after the BDR mutiny, while the government decided to form special tribunals for a quick trial of those involved in the massacre of Army officers.

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Jawan kills 6 in North-East

In one of the worst case of fratricidal killings in the paramilitary forces, a jawan of the Assam Rifles shot dead six of his colleagues, including a junior commissioned officer, at a remote motor vehicle checkpost in Manipur’s Ukhrul district late on Wednesday night.

The incident took place at Awang Kasom, about 15 km west of Chingai sub divisional headquarters, where troops of the Assam Rifles are on duty at a road checkpost.

Rifleman T.S. Tangkhul, who was probably on duty, got into a heated altercation with his JCO and shot him dead with his service rifle.

Hearing the gunshots, five other jawans rushed in and Tangkhul found himself surrounded by five of his unit colleagues who tried to disarm him.

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