Dear Alochoks
My understanding is that at least another 3 BDR jawans have died since this article on 4/8/09.
Its simply appalling and ghastly that this is going on.
While we can all sing songs about Bongobondhu morning, noon and night injustice continues to flourish effortlessly in our land.
Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Ezajur Rahman" <ezajur.rahman@...> wrote:
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> UNNATURAL DEATHS OF BDR JAWANS
> Probe body misses 3rd deadline
>
> Courtesy New Age 4/8/09
>
>
> Mustafizur Rahman
>
> The investigation committee failed to make any headway in probing the
> deaths of BDR soldiers in custody even in the last two months and a half
> as such death toll soared to 35 until Sunday, officials said.
> The government has given the probe body one more month to complete
> the investigation into 'unnatural deaths' of Bangladesh Rifles soldiers
> in custody in the aftermath of the February 25-26 bloody rebellion at
> the BDR headquarters.
> The home ministry's committee, formed on May 14, had missed the
> deadline for the third time, said an official concerned.
> As the last deadline for submitting probe report expired on July 26,
> the government on July 29 gave it one-month time further to facilitate
> 'better investigation into the incidents.'
> 'The committee asked for more time to properly investigate the
> incidents of unnatural deaths...We have allowed one month more so that
> the body can complete the task in a better manner,' home secretary Abdus
> Sobhan Sikder told New Age on Monday.
> The government initiated the executive inquiry into unnatural deaths
> of the paramilitary force members, who were taken into custody on
> suspicion of their involvement with the mutiny, in the wake of pressures
> from local and international rights groups.
> At least 35 BDR soldiers died in custody in Dhaka and elsewhere after
> the rebellion that killed 75 persons, including 57 army officers deputed
> to the border force.
> The police so far arrested more than 3,000 BDR soldiers at places
> across the country in connection with the worst rebellion in BDR that
> stunned the nation and put the two-month old government in troubles.
> Of the arrested, seven reportedly committed suicide, eight died of
> 'heart attack' and the other 20 deaths were caused by various diseases,
> according to the BDR authorities.
> 'The deputy secretary-led committee is too weak to carry out such a
> sensitive task,' said a senior official at the home ministry.
> In late June, the committee was given a month's extension for
> completing the inquiry into the incidents after it missed the second
> deadline.
> The committee formed with representatives from BDR and police was
> supposed to submit report in 15 days to June 4.
> But it could not even start the work in the given time as deputy
> secretary (law) Zakir Hassain initially declined to head the four-member
> body.
> It was given 15 more days.
> The committee is supposed to identify the reasons behind the
> unnatural deaths of border guards and recommend steps to prevent such
> custodial deaths.
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