BDR trial hears of body dumping
The first-ever description of how the bodies of slain army officers were dumped in mass graves by rebel jawans of the former Bangladesh Rifles under the cover of night was narrated before a Dhaka court yesterday.
A witness, Havilder Abdul Malek, in his testimony before the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, Dhaka, elaborated what he saw under the lights of two pickup-vans while hiding inside the dining hall of BDR's Pilkhana headquarters.
“For the whole night some BDR jawans dug the vegetable garden behind MT garage near the playground of 13 Rifle Battalion. Around midnight a mini-truck pulled up and dead bodies started to be dumped into the holes,” he said.
A total of 74 people, including 57 army officers, were murdered during the February 25-26, 2009 mutiny.
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