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Bangladesh court sentences 152 BDR men to death for 2009 mutiny

Dhaka:  A court in Bangladesh on Tuesday sentenced 152 people to death for their actions in a 2009 border guard mutiny in which 74 people, including 57 military commanders, were killed.Dhaka's Metropolitan Sessions Court Judge

India TV News Desk Updated on: November 05, 2013 17:05 IST





The paramilitary border guards known as the Bangladesh Rifles, now Border Guards Bangladesh, staged the two-day insurrection over pay and other grievances against their military leaders.

The mutiny on Feb. 25-26, 2009, took place two months after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took office.

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