BDR Mutiny and Aftermath - Few Points to Ponder BdOsint 24/7 Few questions have been bothering me for last few days, can anyone enlighten me with answers?? 1. Hon'ble PM went to Pilkhana on Tuesday morning and was again due on Wednesday evening (as the BDR week was on). As per protocol the keys to Arsenal then should remain with SSF, but how come the BDR Jawans had it? 2. Even in normal circumstances it should remain with an Officer and not with a Subadar or Jawan. 3. On 22nd there was supposed to be a joint BDR-BSF March Past. BSF pulled out without showing any cause and at the last moment, any idea as to why? 4. We have our military intelligence (however oxymoronic it sounds). With PM due, they should have known about the mutiny. If it was a spur of the moment thing, then they not being aware could have been acceptable. But now as it is being circulated that it was a long planned thing and crores of Tk. was used for this (Mr. Nanak said so), one does wonder what they were doing? If there was a discontent over a period then they should have known it. Or they were too busy taking information on politicians that they forgot to report it to the Govt. 5. On Wednesday the amnesty was declared, but why there was so much delay in making it official? After waiting for couple of hours something (yes I mean storming Pilkhana) could have carried out. Why did we wait for that long? 6.. Why one junior Minister and even more junior whip were sent to negotiate? Mind you these two Hon'ble persons were safely tucked away in India during 1-11 regime. 7. State Minister for Home was absent from the scene. Why? He was very vocal and constantly in media previously, but never seen during this crisis? 8. Did anyone mark the discrepancies in statements of rescued/ freed army officers? Some say, bodies were burnt, some says not. 9. First two days media was BDR sympathetic, but since Friday (after army chief visited PM) the tune changed and BDR vilification began. The most laughable was the clip showing RAB asking a chap in a bus, "Who are you" and the guy meekly saying "I work for BDR". Jeez, we all know that defence has their brain down somewhere of the anatomy, but someone who is running away would answer in such obvious way? Gimme a break. What do the media take us for? 10. Why was there a sudden blackout on Thursday night as Armed Police Battalion entered Pilkhana. There was no power outage until then. 11. No one is saying how many BDR was inside the Pilkhana at the time of mutiny. We know that about two hundred was in the barracks, and another about two hundred is caught while fleeing. So far I know, at any given point there are about 12,000 BDR jawans in pilkhana, what happened to the rest? If they all fled, then what the Army and RAB was doing who surrounded and cordoned off the area? Home Minister said about 3,300 surrendered the arms. The numbers just don't add up, does it? 12. Why state mourning for army officials only? Civilians do not count? 13. 5 lac tk. For the families of armies. Why not the civilians? 14. Can our journalists be a little more humane? On Wednesday, when some civilians were carrying a wounded man on their shoulders, they blocked the rescue path to take photos. On Thursday, when all on a sudden the notice to evacuate was issued and people were running away, they were blocking and asking where they were going and why? What an idiotic question to ask people frantically running to save their lives. Or asking the family members of missing army personnel what they are doing in from of BDR gate. Height of insensitivity and idiocy if you ask me. 15. One so called journalist/political analyst in ETV (BTW, CEO of ETV claims to be an AL supporter, but I have letters signed by him, claiming himself to be a Bangladeshi Jatiyotabadi, I guess he changed his colours as it suits him), stated that he is ashamed to call himself a journalist as few called the incident as a mutiny, in his view it is nothing but a planned killing spree. What made him say that? Does he know something that he didn't share with the general public? Same goes for Mr. Nanak's statement about crores of Tk. Being spent to make this happen? We general people would love to know that and help the Govt. to maintain our sovereignty. 16. Last but not the least, "What is meant by General Amnesty"????? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BdOsint/message/6030 |
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