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Article: Bangladesh: mutiny dealt serious blow to country's security.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- March 2, 2009
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Byline: David Montero Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
DHAKA, Bangladesh -- They were found lying in ditches by the dozens. Many were bound at the hands and feet. On their uniforms they bore the marks of their crime: the badges and stripes of colonels, majors, and lieutenants of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR).
Over the weekend, police in Bangladesh discovered 50 bodies in three mass graves at the BDR headquarters in Dhaka, bringing the total death toll of officers killed in last week's mutiny to 63. Among the dead were Maj. Gen. Shakil Ahmed, the head of the Bangladesh Rifles, a paramilitary border security force, and his wife, who lived on ...