Gelston
11-08-2013, 03:46 AM
Bangladesh sentences 152 former paramilitary soldiers to death for killing 74 in 2009 mutiny
A court in Bangladesh court has sentenced to death 152 former paramilitary soldiers after finding them guilty of killing 74 people - among them 57 army officers - during a mutiny. Campaigners have said the legal process did not meet international standards and have called for a retrial.
"They will be hanged by the neck until they are dead," ruled judge Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman, according to the Press Trust of india. "The atrocities were so heinous...Even the dead bodies were not given their rights."
The mutiny was carried out by paramilitary border guards known as the Bangladesh Rifles and since renamed the Border Guards Bangladesh. They staged the two-day insurrection in February 2009 over pay and other grievances against their military leaders who received higher wages and perks.
The uprising took place just two months after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took office and exposed rifts between her government and the country's powerful military. Senior officers were unhappy over the response of the government, which did not allow troops to attack the border guards' Pilkhana Barracks in Dhaka, where the military commanders had been killed.
Ms Hasina initially offered an amnesty to quell the revolt but rescinded the offer when dozens of bodies were found in sewers and in mass graves.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bangladesh-sentences-152-former-paramilitary-soldiers-to-death-for-killing-74-in-2009-mutiny-8922236.html
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How many of these executions do you think will be carried out?
A court in Bangladesh court has sentenced to death 152 former paramilitary soldiers after finding them guilty of killing 74 people - among them 57 army officers - during a mutiny. Campaigners have said the legal process did not meet international standards and have called for a retrial.
"They will be hanged by the neck until they are dead," ruled judge Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman, according to the Press Trust of india. "The atrocities were so heinous...Even the dead bodies were not given their rights."
The mutiny was carried out by paramilitary border guards known as the Bangladesh Rifles and since renamed the Border Guards Bangladesh. They staged the two-day insurrection in February 2009 over pay and other grievances against their military leaders who received higher wages and perks.
The uprising took place just two months after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took office and exposed rifts between her government and the country's powerful military. Senior officers were unhappy over the response of the government, which did not allow troops to attack the border guards' Pilkhana Barracks in Dhaka, where the military commanders had been killed.
Ms Hasina initially offered an amnesty to quell the revolt but rescinded the offer when dozens of bodies were found in sewers and in mass graves.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bangladesh-sentences-152-former-paramilitary-soldiers-to-death-for-killing-74-in-2009-mutiny-8922236.html
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How many of these executions do you think will be carried out?