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BDR massacre victims' kin stage demo to press for demands

Published : Friday, 10 January, 2025 at 12:00 AM  Count : 25
Staff Correspondent
Family members and relatives of dismissed members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have staged protests at Shahbagh intersection.

Around 1:05pm on Thursday, they started for Shahbagh in a procession from Central Shaheed Minar premises.

They went to Shabagh at about 1:30pm and blocked that important street to press home their three-point demands-- justice for the victims of the 2009 Pilkhana massacre, the reinstatement of dismissed personnel and recognition of their grievances by the authorities. Police force was found on alert position there.

Before the blockade, the protesters gathered at the Central Shaheed Minar, where they voiced their demands in a public meeting.

 Following this, they organised a procession from the Shaheed Minar to Shahbagh roundabout, where they staged the road blockade.

Family members and relatives of dismissed BDR members want to get an opportunity to meet with the Chief Adviser.

Mollah Nabiullah, father of Mollah Sayeed, who is now behind bars, said, "A total of 824 are now in jail. Some of them have died.

Around 18,000 were dismissed. We want their release, reinstatement and rehabilitation of those who have been fired."

The demonstrators expressed their frustrations over what they perceive as a lack of justice for the events of the Pilkhana massacre, where dozens of army officers were brutally killed during a mutiny by the BDR personnel in 2009. Many of the dismissed members claim they were unfairly punished or removed without proper evidence linking them to the mutiny.

"We want justice for the innocent, both the victims of the massacre and those dismissed unfairly," a protester said during the blockade. On Wednesday the protesters had warned of blocking the Shahbagh roundabout if their demands were not addressed during the hearing at the Metropolitan Special Tribunal-2 in Dhaka. They carried out the warning after finding no resolution in the tribunal proceedings earlier on Thursday.



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