DHAKA:
Bangladesh on Thursday ordered a fee to research a failed 2009 military mutiny and subsequent crackdown, together with the function of alleged “international” backers, the inquiry chief stated.
The violent mutiny despatched shock waves via the South Asian nation and ended with the military crushing the mutineers, with scores arrested and sentenced to loss of life.
A earlier official investigation into the mutiny which left scores useless blamed years of pent-up anger amongst abnormal troopers, who felt their appeals for pay rises and higher therapy had been ignored.
However that probe was carried out throughout the tenure of Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted as prime minister by a revolution in August, when she fled to outdated ally India.
Since her fall, households of troopers killed within the violence have been campaigning to reopen the investigation.
They’ve repeatedly accused Hasina — then newly elected — of orchestrating a plan to weaken the navy to bolster her personal energy in a rustic liable to coups.
Protesters have additionally alleged India’s involvement in that plot.
The claims are prone to infuriate New Delhi, which didn’t instantly reply to the allegations.
“We goal to find out whether or not any international entity was concerned within the carnage, as allegations of nationwide and worldwide conspiracy have been raised,” fee chief A.L.M. Fazlur Rahman instructed reporters.
The mutineers stole hundreds of weapons in February 2009 from the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) paramilitary squad earlier than embarking on a killing spree within the barracks .
The rebellion shortly unfold, with hundreds of troopers seizing weapons and pledging allegiance to the mutineers earlier than it was quashed by the military.
Hundreds had been rounded up and tried in particular navy courts within the aftermath of the bloodbath, because the then newly-elected authorities of Hasina wrestled to regain management.