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Death penalty proposed for mutineers in Bangladesh
Jul 12, 2010, 14:09 GMT
Dhaka- The Bangladeshi government on Monday approved a draft law on the paramilitary border force that would impose a maximum penalty of death against mutineers, an official said.
The council of ministers of the Awami League-led ruling alliance headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed approved the draft of the Boarder Guard Bangladesh Bill 2010 at a meeting.
It faced a deadly mutiny at the border guards' headquarters in Dhaka in February last year.
The troops rose up against their commanders at the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles, leaving at least 74 people, including 54 army officers, dead.
The existing maximum punishment of seven years imprisonment under the Bangladesh Rifles Order of 1972 for mutiny or disobedience would be replaced by capital punishment once the proposed law is passed by parliament, Abul Kalam Azad, a spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office, said.
He said the force would be renamed the Border Guard Bangladesh.
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