The 12th anniversary of the carnage at the BDR (Bangladesh Rifles) headquarters in Dhaka will be observed on Thursday.
The families of the deceased will place floral wreaths on their graves at Banani Military Graveyard in Dhaka at 9am on the day, the Inter Service Public Relation (ISPR) Directorate said in a press release.
Insider sources said the military secretaries of the president and the prime minister, chiefs of the three armed forces, the director general of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and the senior secretary of the Home Ministry, among other top officials, will also place wreaths at the graveyard.
Mutiny
On February 25-26, 2009, mutineers in the then BDR killed 74 people, including 57 army officers, at the Pilkhana headquarters of the paramilitary force.
In 2013, a Dhaka court sentenced 151 BDR men and a civilian to death in the BDR carnage case, while 160 BDR men and two civilians were given life sentences and 256 others were jailed for different terms.
Then in 2017, the High Court confirmed the death penalty of 139 people, commuted the capital punishment of eight people to life sentences and acquitted four others.
Besides, the court upheld the life imprisonment of 146 convicts and handed down different jail terms to 196.
In January 2021, nine death row convicts filed an appeal with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, challenging the High Court verdict that confirmed their death sentences awarded by the trial court.