Court Martial Lawyer – Bangladesh may court martial mutineers: minister
DHAKA (AFP) — More than 1,000 border guards wanted for massacring scores of their officers last week in a mutiny in the Bangladesh capital could be court martialled, the country’s law minister said Saturday.
Bangladesh police have issued warrants for the arrest of more than 1,000 Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) troops believed to have been involved in the bloodshed in which at least 74 people were killed, including 56 senior army officers.
The country’s law minister Shafiq Ahmed said the government was reviewing options for trying the mutineers after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pledged they would be brought to justice quickly in a special tribunal.
“Based on the investigations, we will determine the procedure for the trial of the culprits. They could be tried in a special tribunal or court martialled in an army court,” he told AFP.
Ahmed said the mode of the prosecution would be different if civilians were found to have been involved in the massacre.
Bangladesh has arrested the alleged ringleader of the mutiny, the first in the history of the country’s paramilitary border security force.
A military-led hunt has been launched to round up the rest of the border guards wanted for the killings.
The mutineers killed their commanders and dumped their bodies in sewers, drains and shallow graves.
The bloodshed has raised fears for the country’s elected government, coming little more than two months after Hasina won power in polls that ended two years of rule by an army-backed emergency government
Michael Waddington is a court martial lawyer – court martial attorney that defends military personnel worldwide as well as deployed civilian contractors subject to the UCMJ. He defends Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, Coast Guard, and civilian contractor court martial cases. He has successfully defended military personnel as a court martial lawyer Army Navy Marine & Air Force court martials in Germany, England, Italy, Iraq, Kuwait, Korea, Okinawa, Japan, Yokota, and throughout the United States. military-defense-lawyer-recentcases.htm.
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