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19 May 2009
Bangladesh has arrested more than 500 border guards
over their suspected involvement in an uprising three
months ago that left dozens of army officers dead.
The guards were detained at camps across the country
on Monday, taking the total number held over the
mutiny to nearly 2,000 people, police and local media
said.
"In Cox's Bazar district alone, 106 border guards
were arrested from their border posts," Motiur Rahman
Sheikh, the district police chief, told the AFP news
agency.
"They were charged with sedition and were sent to
jail."
The 33-hour revolt over pay and working conditions
erupted on February 25 at the headquarters of
Bangladesh's border force, the Bangladesh Rifles, in
the capital, Dhaka.
Outside of the capital, many more mutineers took up
arms forcing officers to flee their posts.
The uprising ended after the government offered an
amnesty to the mutineers, but this was withdrawn after
the bodies of scores of people were found in mass
graves and sewers in the Dhaka compound.
At least 74 people were killed, including 57 army
commanders.
The violence shook relations between the newly elected
government of Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister, and
the military, which criticised her handling of the
situation.
The government has appointed two committees - one
headed by the military and another by the home
ministry - to investigate the revolt, but their
findings are still awaited.
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