Bangladesh Sentences Mutinous Troops To Death

More than 150 Bangladeshi border guards to death over a mutiny in 2009 that left 74 people dead, including several senior officers.

Another 160 mutineers were jailed for life, including a former politician of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

"The court announced the death sentence to them for the heinous killing of the country's brave sons," Prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain Kajol said.

The sentences were handed out after a mass trial which involved 846 defendants, leading to criticism from human rights groups.

An army soldier cries as he carries the coffin of a fallen officer

"Trying hundreds of people en masse in one giant courtroom, where the accused have little or no access to lawyers is an affront to international legal standards," Brad Adams of Human Rights Watch said.

More than 256 people received prison terms between three and 10 years and 277 soldiers were acquitted. 

The 30-hour revolt by members of a unit known at the times at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) was motivated by poor pay and conditions.

The victims were hacked to death, tortured or burnt alive before their bodies were dumped in sewers and shallow graves.

"The atrocities were so heinous that even the dead bodies were not given their rights," Judge Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman told the packed court as he read out the verdicts.

Army soldiers inspect the assembly hall damaged by the mutineers

The violence began at the BDR headquarters in Dhaka - which has its own rose garden and zoo - before spreading across the country.

An official probe into the mutiny blamed years of pent-up anger over ignored pleas for pay rises and improved treatment of the ordinary troops, who resented their better-paid superiors.

The judge said that the soldiers should have been given better pay and privileges to defuse the resentment, saying they could not afford to send their children to military-owned schools.

Nearly 6,000 soldiers have already been convicted by dozens of special courts.

The mutiny shook the stability of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's newly elected government, which ended the revolt by negotiating a settlement.

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