The nation yesterday mourned the death of 74 people, including 57 army officers, during the BDR carnage on February 25-26 in 2009.
Placing wreaths at the capital’s Banani army graveyard, family members of the victims yesterday expressed disappointment that the verdict of the BDR carnage case was yet to be executed.
Representatives of the president and prime minister, the home minister, chiefs of three services, senior home secretary, BGB director general, and leaders of the Awami League and BNP paid their tributes at the graveyard.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters at the graveyard that the verdict would be executed properly.
The mutiny in 2009 shocked the nation. A total of 829 people, mostly BDR members, were accused in the carnage case filed later.
On November 5, 2013, a Dhaka court sentenced 148 BDR members and two civilians to death, 160 to life in prison, and 256 people, mostly BDR soldiers, to rigorous imprisonment.
The court acquitted 278, but the prosecutors later appealed against the acquittal of 69.
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