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Army officials killed in BDR mutiny an outcome of conspiracy: Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir

Staff Reporter

Published: 19:27, 25 February 2022

Army officials killed in BDR mutiny an outcome of conspiracy: Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that the killings of military officials in the BDR mutiny were the outcome of a deep-rooted conspiracy against the Bangladesh Army.
 
"It (BDR mutiny) was not just a mutiny as there was a deep-rooted conspiracy behind it. The main reason was to break the morale of the army," he said.
 
Fakhrul came up with the remarks while talking to reporters after placing wreaths at a monument set up at Banani Graveyard in memory of the army officials killed in the Pilkhana carnage, marking the 13th anniversary of the incident.
 
He lamented that the nation has not yet got a proper investigation report on who really were behind the BDR mutiny and no report has been released on the investigation carried out by the army.
 
"It's our bad luck that we still couldn't reveal the truth through an investigation even after so many years. We still don't know who actually were behind it and why this incident happened! We believe that there's a conspiracy behind holding back the investigation report (of the army)," Fakhrul said.
 
On February 25-26, 2009, a cabal of the then Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) killed 74 people, including 57 army officers, of the paramilitary force at the Pilkhana Headquarters.
 
Fakhrul said February 25, 2009, is a very sad and terrible day for the whole nation as 57 officials of the army, the best resource of the nation, were killed on this day through the mutiny.

Earlier, Fakhrul along with party leaders and ex-army officials went to the graveyard and placed wreaths at the monument and offered special prayers there seeking eternal peace of the departed souls of the slain army officers.
 
BNP vice chairmen Maj (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, and Air Vice Marshal (retd) Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, retired army officers Fazle Elahi Akbar, Hasan Nasir, Kamruzzaman, Mizanur Rahman, Sarwar Hossain, MA Hasan, Kohinur Alam Noor and Aziz Reza were there in the BNP delegation.

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