Probe reports to determine BDR mutiny trial process: Shafique
Sunday, 8 March 2009
Country's Constitution will have to be amended if the BDR mutineers are to be tried in a new special tribunal, said Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed, reports UNB.
He said trial process of the BDR members accused of involvement in BDR Headquarters mutiny depends on completion of the investigations now underway.
"It depends on reports of the investigations if the trial would be held under the existing law or new Special Tribunal Act," the law minister said in reply to a query of journalists at a training programme for newly appointed judges in Dhaka Saturday.
The basic training course on judicial administration for newly appointed assistant judges and judicial magistrates was held at the Judicial Administration Training Institute.
He also opined that the government could think holding the trial under 'The Court Martial Act 1952' or 'The International Crime Tribunal Act 1973'.
"But everything will depend on completion of the investigations," the barrister-minister said.
A good number of army officers in command of the paramilitary border force were killed during the February 25-26 mutiny at the BDR Peelkhana Headquarters.
Following the massacre and marauding in the HQs, troubles had also broken out in many other Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) camps in different parts of the country.
He said trial process of the BDR members accused of involvement in BDR Headquarters mutiny depends on completion of the investigations now underway.
"It depends on reports of the investigations if the trial would be held under the existing law or new Special Tribunal Act," the law minister said in reply to a query of journalists at a training programme for newly appointed judges in Dhaka Saturday.
The basic training course on judicial administration for newly appointed assistant judges and judicial magistrates was held at the Judicial Administration Training Institute.
He also opined that the government could think holding the trial under 'The Court Martial Act 1952' or 'The International Crime Tribunal Act 1973'.
"But everything will depend on completion of the investigations," the barrister-minister said.
A good number of army officers in command of the paramilitary border force were killed during the February 25-26 mutiny at the BDR Peelkhana Headquarters.
Following the massacre and marauding in the HQs, troubles had also broken out in many other Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) camps in different parts of the country.