Aftermath of February massacre started in Bangladesh
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
June 27, 2009
According to vernacular daily Amader Shomoy and Amar Desh, a large number of junior and mid ranking members of Bangladesh Armed Forces are already sacked from their job for their ´audacious behavior´ with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the then chief of army staff General Moeen U Ahmed. According to these reports, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met the members of armed forces at Sena Kunja auditorium which is located inside Dhaka Cantonment right after the massacre inside Bangladesh Riffles head quarters at Pilkhana in Dhaka. It may be mentioned here that a large number of army officers were brutally murdered and several female members of their families violated by the members of Bangladesh Riffles during February 25-26 this year.
Government of Sheikh Hasina did not allow the members of armed forces and other law enforcing agencies to storm into the Bangladesh Riffles headquarters to rescue the army officers and their family members who were made hostage inside the headquarters of the border security guard by the ´renegade´ troops. Instead of allowing army crackdown, the government opted for ´political settlement´ of the situation and sent two of the junior leaders of the ruling party to negotiate with the mutineers. In the name of political negotiation, these junior leaders and later many other figures in the government spent almost 32 hours, thus giving opportunity to the mutineers in killing almost all the army officers who were held hostage inside the headquarters of the border security force and violated large number of female members of their families who were also held inside the BDR headquarters.
Such reluctance of the government naturally annoyed the members of Bangladesh Armed Forces. When the Prime Minister went to meet them at the Sena Kunja auditorium two days after this bloody massacre, quite naturally some of the members of the armed forces were expressing their shock and grievance to the Prime Minister.
But, such natural expression of anger and shock by the members of armed forces was not taken easily by the most questioned chief of army General Moeen U Ahmed. He took personal initiatives in sending a large number of such officers into forced retirement.
We in Blitz, weeks before forecasted that, those officers who were present at the Sena Kunja auditorium and expressed anger would be sacked from their job once the present government was able to tackle the BDR massacre issue. Now, it is proved that the government with the help of former army chief General Moeen has very successfully tackled the BDR massacre issue by prolonging the investigation and diverting or twisting several facts. And, now the government has started sacking those army officers who were annoyed at the death of their colleagues and humiliation of the families of the army officers.
According to Amar Desh report, General Moeen U Ahmed initiated such drastic actions against the members of Bangladesh Armed Forces at the verbal instruction of the ruling party high-ups.
Meanwhile, vernacular daily Amader Shomoy said, some of the army officers were sacked for their involvement in putting the contents of the Sena Kunja meeting on YouTube. Bangladesh government blocked YouTube for several days to stop locals from watching these videos. But, later it was lifted as the video clips were already spread in several portals in the world.
It may be mentioned here that, Amader Shomoy has been running series of campaigns against the military intelligence saying, some ´rogue´ officers of this agency were behind putting the Sena Kunja meeting contents on YouTube. Several columnists of this newspaper continued writing articles and oped condemning members of Bangladesh Army for ´depriving the BDR soldiers for decades causing the mutiny´.
Government of Sheikh Hasina did not allow the members of armed forces and other law enforcing agencies to storm into the Bangladesh Riffles headquarters to rescue the army officers and their family members who were made hostage inside the headquarters of the border security guard by the ´renegade´ troops. Instead of allowing army crackdown, the government opted for ´political settlement´ of the situation and sent two of the junior leaders of the ruling party to negotiate with the mutineers. In the name of political negotiation, these junior leaders and later many other figures in the government spent almost 32 hours, thus giving opportunity to the mutineers in killing almost all the army officers who were held hostage inside the headquarters of the border security force and violated large number of female members of their families who were also held inside the BDR headquarters.
Such reluctance of the government naturally annoyed the members of Bangladesh Armed Forces. When the Prime Minister went to meet them at the Sena Kunja auditorium two days after this bloody massacre, quite naturally some of the members of the armed forces were expressing their shock and grievance to the Prime Minister.
But, such natural expression of anger and shock by the members of armed forces was not taken easily by the most questioned chief of army General Moeen U Ahmed. He took personal initiatives in sending a large number of such officers into forced retirement.
We in Blitz, weeks before forecasted that, those officers who were present at the Sena Kunja auditorium and expressed anger would be sacked from their job once the present government was able to tackle the BDR massacre issue. Now, it is proved that the government with the help of former army chief General Moeen has very successfully tackled the BDR massacre issue by prolonging the investigation and diverting or twisting several facts. And, now the government has started sacking those army officers who were annoyed at the death of their colleagues and humiliation of the families of the army officers.
According to Amar Desh report, General Moeen U Ahmed initiated such drastic actions against the members of Bangladesh Armed Forces at the verbal instruction of the ruling party high-ups.
Meanwhile, vernacular daily Amader Shomoy said, some of the army officers were sacked for their involvement in putting the contents of the Sena Kunja meeting on YouTube. Bangladesh government blocked YouTube for several days to stop locals from watching these videos. But, later it was lifted as the video clips were already spread in several portals in the world.
It may be mentioned here that, Amader Shomoy has been running series of campaigns against the military intelligence saying, some ´rogue´ officers of this agency were behind putting the Sena Kunja meeting contents on YouTube. Several columnists of this newspaper continued writing articles and oped condemning members of Bangladesh Army for ´depriving the BDR soldiers for decades causing the mutiny´.
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