Commission on BDR carnage issues public notice seeking information
The National Independent Investigation Commission on the BDR carnage has issued a public notice asking all to provide information related to the carnage through its official website.
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BDR carnage mystery must be revealed: Professor Yunus
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday said the mystery behind the 2009 BDR carnage must be revealed.
Police use water cannons to disperse former BDR members鈥� gathering
At least 31 people were injured as the police used water cannons, hurled sound grenades and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse a group of sacked members of the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles who had been demonstrating near the secretariat in Dhaka demanding reinstatement of their jobs on Monday...
Sacked BDR members鈥� sit-in near Jamuna today
The members of erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles, who were dismissed and imprisoned after the 2009 BDR massacre, on Sunday announced that they would hold a sit-in programme in front of chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus鈥檚 official residence Jamuna in the capital today...
Sacked BDR members hold demo demanding reinstatement of jobs
The members of erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles, who were dismissed and imprisoned after the 2009 BDR massacre, and their family members staged a demonstration in Jigatola area near Border Guard Bangladesh headquarters on Sunday demanding reinstatement of their jobs...
Commission on BDR carnage seeks information from all
Bangladesh interim government-instituted National Independent Investigation Commission on 2009 mutiny in the then paramilitary BDR force on Wednesday invited all concerned to provide information related to the revolt that had killed 74 people, including 57 military officers.
BdREN hosts seminar on access to IEEE journals
BdREN has recently organised a seminar titled Access to IEEE Journals: BdREN Initiatives, bringing together librarians from public and private universities across Bangladesh in Dhaka...
Govt should deliver justice for BDR carnage
WHILE the 2009 carnage in the Bangladesh Rifles, later renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh, remains a shocking incident, leaving an indelible scar, the failure to establish the motive and the plotters of the incident and to bring them to justice is unsettling. The rebellion, which began in the border guard headquarters on February 25 and spilled over to some other sector...
Bangladesh committed to ensure justice for BDR carnage victims: Yunus
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus said on Tuesday that Bangladesh, as a state, is committed to ensuring fair justice for the military officials who were killed during the 2009 BDR carnage in Pilkhana, Dhaka...
Home affairs adviser pays tribute to martyrs of Pilkhana tragedy
Home affairs adviser Lieutenant General (retired) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury marked the Martyred Army Day on Monday by paying homage to military officials, who were killed during the 2009 BDR mutiny in Dhaka鈥檚 Pilkahan...
16 YEARS OF BDR CARNAGE: Voices for justice get louder after Hasina fall
Voices for justice over the killings of 74 people, including 57 army officers, in the then Bangladesh Rifles headquarters at the capital鈥檚 Pilkhana during the 2009 BDR mutiny have been getting louder since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime on August 5, 2024 amid a mass uprising.
IN MEMORIAM: Mother鈥檚 golden boy
COLONEL Anisuzzaman was a brave soldier, a loving father, a devoted husband and a caring son. He lived to age 50 when his life was cut short by a hail of bullets from rebellious jawans during the bloody Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutiny on February 25, 2009. He died valiantly along with his courageous colleagues while doing his job serving his country...
BDR massacre: national security concerns
THE tragic events of February 2009 in Bangladesh, known as the BDR Massacre, remain one of the most devastating incidents in the nation鈥檚 history, leaving an indelible scar on the national psyche. At the outset, it is essential to clarify that this was not a mere mutiny but a well-orchestrated massacre. Exploiting existing grievances within the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR)...
Commission needs to talk with Hasina, Moyeen U Ahmed for BDR mutiny reinvestigation: chairman
Chairman of the National Independent Investigation Commission Major General, retd, A L M Fazlur Rahman on Thursday said they were trying to talk with former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and ex-army chief Moyeen Uddin Ahmed over the BDR carnage at Pilkhana in 2009.
BDR CARNAGE: Commission records statements of 37 people in 41 working days
The National Independent Investigation Commission formed to investigate the 2009 BDR carnage said on Thursday that the commission had taken statements of 37 people in its 41 working days...
BDR CARNAGE:聽Victim families for no release of murder convicts flouting law
Families of the victims of the February 25-26, 2009 rebellion in the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles on Wednesday urged not to release death row and life term convicts in murder case without applying law properly...
Sacked BDR members suspend protests
The members of erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles, who were dismissed and imprisoned after the 2009 BDR massacre, and their families on Wednesday suspended their protests demanding reinstatement of their jobs and the release of the detained BDR members...
Sacked BDR members stage sit-in for imprisoned colleagues鈥� release
The members of erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles, who were dismissed and imprisoned after the 2009 BDR massacre, and their families on Tuesday staged a sit-in at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka to press home their demands including their colleagues鈥� release and job reinstatement...
BDR MUTINY: Wholesale release of BDR soldiers unjust, say survivors
Survivors and families of the victims of February 25鈥�26, 2009 rebellion in the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles on Wednesday at a press conference in Dhaka said that it would be unjust if all imprisoned and death row convicts were released on a wholesale basis as all BDR soldiers were not innocent...
BDR families reunite after 16 years
A total of 178 former members of the then Bangladesh Rifles were released from different jails on Thursday, four days after they were granted bail in an explosive case linked to the 2009 BDR mutiny.
Court grants bail to over 200 former BDR soldiers detained in explosives case
A Dhaka court on Sunday granted bail to at least 200 former Bangladesh Rifles soldiers in an explosive case filed over the BDR mutiny. All these soldiers have already been acquitted by both the trial court and...
Sacked members of BDR, families take to streets
Sacked Bangladesh Rifles members, students and the families of the BDR members dismissed from the force and imprisoned after the 2009 BDR massacre staged demonstrations on Sunday...
BDR carnage trial to be held at Dhaka Central Jail
The trial for the BDR massacre case will take place in a temporary court at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj instead of the previously planned location at the Dhaka Alia Madrasa ground.
Human chain demands release of innocent BDR members
BDR Welfare Council of Dhaka district has organised a human chain at Dhaka University to press home their various demands including the release of innocent BDR members for their suspected involvement in Pilkhana massacre...
Shahbagh blocked again for release, reinstatement of sacked BDR members
Personnel sacked from the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles along with the families of those, dismissed from the force and imprisoned after the 2009 BDR massacre, blocked the Shahbagh crossing for...
BDR MUTINY: Trial deferred again as courtroom set on fire
The hearing in the explosive case filed for the February 2009 Bangladesh Rifles mutiny was on Thursday deferred till January 19 as the makeshift courtroom at Government Alia Madrassah was set on fire...
BDR courtroom at Alia Madrasa torched amid relocation controversy
The makeshift courtroom, established in 2013 to try members of the Bangladesh Rifles involved in the February 2009 BDR headquarters carnage, was set ablaze late last night on Wednesday within the Alia Madrasa compound.
Families want sacked BDR soldiers be reinstated
Families of former Bangladesh Rifles soldiers, dismissed and imprisoned after the 2009 BDR massacre, blocked the Shahbagh crossing on Wednesday, demanding reinstatement in the force, now renamed as the Border Guard Bangladesh...
BDR CARNAGE: Victim families fear obstacles to reinvestigation聽
Families of the victims and survivors of the 2009 BDR Carnage on Monday expressed apprehension that the commission newly formed by the interim government to investigate the massacre might face obstruction in its carrying out a fair probe.
BDR massacre commission to identify local, foreign conspiracies: chief
The chairman of the newly formed National Independent Commission formed to reinvestigate the 2009 BDR massacre, Major General (retired) ALM Fazlur Rahman, said on Thursday...