Six Bangladesh Rifles personnel were identified on Sunday by police as the ringleaders of the 33-hour mutiny that wiped out nearly the entire batch of army officers serving in the paramilitary force.
The police filed murder charges on Sunday against 1,000 members of BDR, initially suspecting six of them to have led the rebellion. "We accused them of killing the officers and their family members in a planned manner," an official at the
Dhaka's Lalbagh Police station told
PTI.
They accused four BDR deputy assistant directors and two lower-rank soldiers of leading the revolt, taking hostage,
setting fire and hiding the bodies of the officials and their spouses. The names of the six were not immediately known.
Bodies of 73 army officers were retrieved so far while army and fire service rescuers were carrying out searches for
over 70 others. At least 33 officers survived the massacre.
The figure excluded the slain wives, relatives, civilians and BDR soldiers apparently killed for opposing the revolt.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina went to Dhaka Cantonment in her bid to quell the anguish in army, staying there for several hours for talks with officers. The military at a press conference last night vented out their demands for "quick inquiry and highest punishment" of the killers as promised by her government earlier.
The cabinet last night gave its seal on a decision to form