Corruption Allegation Against Army Officer with BDR & The Reality Check! By Major Zaman (Rtd) In the security forces, the chain of command & trust among the leaders & the led are very crucial. The Pilkhana scenario is just opposite to what is desired in the security forces. The rational of meeting the killers by passing the BDR chain of command can only be explained by the competent authority. Whether it has set a wrong precedence, we will have to wait & see. Given the UNO (executive officer) of one of the UZ's (Sub district) hostage scenario in the Chittagong Hill Tracts during Awami League's 1996-2001term, some suggested to pay the ransom. But after weighing out the consequences (recurrence of such incident – ransom), it was decided to rescue the hostage even though that demanded trans border military operations possibly. Read Full Story Finally the UNO was rescued through military means!! History will judge – whether or not, absence of a military rescue operation allowed the perpetrators to kill the officers who survived the initial onslaught and flee without challenge at the same time denial of self defence to the security forces! There were various demands & allegations in the Leaflet that was circulated preceding the tragic events of February 25, 2009 and beyond. Unfortunately the media (electronic media in particular) initially highlighted the corruption allegation of the officers without any comment /response from the officers, so virtually it turned out to be a media propaganda to mislead the people from focusing on the real cause of the carnage. Later the officers at different level gave their account on the allegation. Fortunately, I got the statistics below from a BDR presentation available with one of my friends. The statistics below clearly indicate a progressive better performance and possibly off set the corruption allegations. Major Zaman (Rtd) E Mail : majzaman@bol-online.com |
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