By NNN-PTI,
Dhaka, Bangladesh : Bangladesh investigators probing the bloody BDR mutiny said that they have gathered clues that outsiders in uniform took part in the massacre of army officers as BDR personnel claimed “masked” soldiers forced them to join the revolt, reports said today.
Newly appointed dilapidated BDR chief Brigadier General Mainul Islam told the Daily Star without elaboration that video footage taken during the massacre inside the paramilitary force’s headquarters at Pilkhana in Dhaka showed movement of “some unknown people wearing BDR uniforms”.
Islam could not be reached immediately for comments but talking to PTI, army’s operations director Brigadier General Ziaul Hassan declined to reconfirm the “outsiders” participation “at this stage” as investigations were still underway.
“We have been gathering many information, but I can’t confirm of the outsiders took part in the massacre in uniform until we are sure or could catch any of them,” he said.
Newspaper reports said several BDR soldiers who fled Pilkhana during the mutiny and returned to report back to work said that “masked” men in the paramilitary uniform had forced them to take up firearms during the first hour of the mutiny last week.