Families of the retired border force personnel on Thursday demanded impartial re-investigation into the killing of 75 people, including 57 army officers, in the Bangladesh Rifles rebellion in 2009.
They also demanded trial of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who resigned and fled the country amid student-led mass uprising on August 5, for allegedly masterminding the incident.
They made the demands at a human chain under the banner 鈥楽imanter Atandra Prohori Sarkari Chakrijibi (Abasarprapta) Paribar Samabay Samity Ltd鈥� in front of the National Press Club in the capital.
The cooperative鈥檚 president Shafiqur Rahman Jamal alleged that Sheikh Hasina engineered the killings in the border force to gain India鈥檚 trust, confidence and cooperation in ruling the country.
鈥楾he Hasina government termed this killing as BDR mutiny but basically it was a plot to kill the army officers,鈥� he said.
Protesters alleged that Sheikh Hasina along with her defence and security adviser Tarique Ahmed Siddique masterminded this tragic incident in the BDR, later renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh.
They demanded that Hasina and her accomplices were brought to justice and innocent border guard members, who were fired for not giving false witness, were reinstated in their jobs.
In February 25鈥�26, 2009, several hundred Bangladesh Rifles soldiers instituted an armed rebellion at the force鈥檚 headquarters at Pilkhana in the capital in which 57 officers deputed from the army, two wives of army officers, nine Bangladesh Rifles members, five civilians, an army soldier, and a police constable were killed.
Border guard special courts sentenced 5,926 soldiers to varying jail terms on mutiny charges in 57 cases.