It's not only this case. If poor people in BD do not get their fair share, they might do worst thing without thinking. We urge current Govt to look at all social and economical issues for good in BD. Its just a matter of time when poor people will hunt down the BD leaders. God Bless Bangladesh and her people! Regards, M. M. Chowdhury (Mithu), USA
--- On Sat, 5/30/09, S A Hannan <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com> wrote:
From: S A Hannan <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com>
Subject: [khabor.com] FW: BDR Mutiny Report: Recommendations Should Be Considered on a Priority Basis --Asia Post editorial dated 29.5.09
To: witness-pioneer@yahoogroups.com, khabor@yahoogroups.com, political_analysts@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 5:17 AM
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----- BDR Mutiny Report: Recommendations Should Be Considered on a Priority Basis Press has reported the summary of BDR mutiny probe report. It said that faoiling to get expected response from political leaders regarding their demands, a group of BDR personnel planned to hold their director general and other army officers hostage at the Darbar on February 25 ."Only a few hardcore mutineers knew about the plan of killing army officers, including the DG, and other heinous activities while others only knew that a tough stance would be taken at the Darbar to realise their demands, but they did not have clear knowledge about the real nature of the stance," the report says.After working for about two and a half months, the probe committee headed by former civil servant Anisuzzaman Khan submitted the 309-page report to the home minister on May 21.Yesterday, however, the home ministry distributed a seven-page summary of the report among journalists at a press briefing held at the ministry.The summary report does not mention the names of the political leaders the BDR members met.However, replying to a question, committee Chairman Anisuzzaman told reporters that the BDR personnel met with Awami League lawmakers Fazle Noor Taposh and Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim before the election. "We have interrogated Taposh in this regard," he said. Replying to another question, probe committee member Mohammad Golam Hossain said these political leaders are State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Jahangir Kabir Nanak, State Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs advocate Kamrul Islam, Awami League Whip Mirza Azam, Jatiya Party lawmaker Sheikh Golam Reza and AL lawmaker Taposh.The committee admits that it failed to determine the "genuine" reasons and motives behind the heinous act of the members of the paramilitary force. So, it believes that further investigation is needed to determine the genuine reasons.The probe has, however, revealed that the existing "negative sentiments" among BDR soldiers about army officers and their dissatisfaction and resentment at the unfulfilled demands could be the primary reasons."Analysing their demands, it will be evident that a few insignificant demands cannot be the main reason for carrying out such a large-scale brutal incident," the summary of the probe report says, adding that these demands were used to spread malicious influence among BDR soldiers."Using these demands, the main architects of the carnage might have pulled the strings from behind to endanger the stability of the state," it says.Replying to queries the committee chairman also said they did not find any militant or foreign links to the carnage. In the sub-head 'Perspective of the mutiny' the summary of the report also said it's all about the grievances among the BDR members about their demands and some other issues in the force.The probe said the mentality of not accepting authority of the army had long been dormant among the BDR members. They had long been demanding appointment of their own officers in the form of BCS cadre, rise in border allowances and 100 per cent ration facility. Their demands also include sending BDR members to the UN Mission and change in their salary structures like that of the army. Besides, daal-bhat programme, punishment meted out to BDR jawans, lack of transparency in running BDR shop, luxurious lifestyle of high officials, corruption in running schools all these eventually boiled over into discontent among BDR men, the summary says. The prime motive of the rebellion was to destroy chain of command and render the BDR ineffective, discourage army officers to work in BDR on deputation in future and create conflict between the Bangladesh Army and the BDR.The report mentions the failure of the main intelligence agencies, their inefficiency, collision between the Rifles Security Unit (RSU) and mutineers, lack of necessary coordination between the BDR and the home ministry over demands of BDR members, electronic media's biased propaganda over the mutiny and the information ministry's lack of control over the media.The report put forward eight short-term and 15 long-term recommendations, which include holding trial of all offences related to the carnage under the Military Law, forming a National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC), forming central intelligence coordination committee and formation of counter-intelligenc e force of all intelligence agencies. From the summary of the report , it is apparent that BDR personnel had many grievences and these were not looked into for a long time. Although these are no justification for mutiny and murder, still we ask the government to look into the grievences and re-constituted BDR should have better conditions, the same should apply to defence forces..We ask the government to consider and take appropriate action on the recommendations made by the probe committee.
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