Lt Gen (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, the home affairs adviser in the interim government, has announced that a reinvestigation and justice process regarding the BDR mutiny will start soon.
During a press briefing after a meeting with the Swiss ambassador to Bangladesh on Monday, Jahangir said as a citizen and a former member of the military, he was committed to ensuring justice for the tragic event.
The government was firmly committed to upholding the rights of the people and establishing justice, he added.
"As the home affairs adviser, and more importantly, as a concerned citizen and former military officer, I demand justice for the BDR massacre. The reinvestigation and the justice process will be initiated promptly to address this matter thoroughly," Jahangir said.
On 25-26 February 2009, a mutiny in the then Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) left 74 people, including 57 army officers, murdered at its Pilkhana headquarters in the capital.
On 5 November 2013, a Dhaka court handed down death sentences to 150 BDR members and two civilians, and life imprisonment to 160 others in this connection.
On 27 November 2017, the High Court confirmed the death penalty for 139 out of the 152 convicts.
Following the heinous killings of the army officers, the government renamed the mutiny-hit paramilitary force BDR as the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), changing its logo as well as uniform.
