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Subscribe </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgF noWrap align=right width="1%">From: </TD><TD class=msgFname noWrap width="68%">6/8,10/9, forums.delphiforums.com/anymos (ANYMOS) <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate noWrap align=right width="30%">4:36 am </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT noWrap align=right width="1%" height=20>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname noWrap width="68%">ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 12) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft width="1%" rowSpan=4> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>8324.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]will same thing happen in Singlapore ?[/FONT]
<HR width="100%" SIZE=2>Bangladesh hunts for mutineers after deadly revolt
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]6 hours ago[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]DHAKA (AFP) — Bangladesh on Monday hunted for 1,000 fugitive soldiers accused of butchering their senior officers in a mutiny which left 150 people dead or missing and raised fears for the new civilian government.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The bloodshed presented Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with a major crisis little more than two months after she won power in elections that ended two years of army rule in the impoverished South Asian country.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Hasina ordered the military to join the search for the mutineers, and also sought help from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United Nations and British police.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"We have given the rebels who fled 24 hours to surrender and that expired at 4:00 pm Sunday, so I have summoned the army and other forces to hunt them," the prime minister told parliament late Sunday.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Hasina said arrest warrants had been issued for 1,000 soldiers, as well as accomplices "who organised cars, boats to help (the mutineers) flee."[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The Brussels-based International Crisis Group said that Hasina was moving to pre-empt any attempts at a military takeover.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"Steps taken by the government appear to have reduced the threat of any coup," the group said in a statement on Monday, though it warned the country still faced "a significant conflict risk."[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The soldiers fled the Dhaka headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on Thursday, apparently dressed as civilians, after a 33-hour mutiny which turned the capital into a battle zone.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]They left behind gruesome scenes with at least 78 bodies, many mutilated by bayonets, dumped in mass graves and thrown down drains. Some 70 senior army officers are still missing.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]President Zillur Rahman led huge crowds gathered in Dhaka on Monday for the funerals of 50 of the dead, including the BDR chief and his wife.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The revolt reportedly stemmed from a dispute over pay and conditions in the BDR force, which is tasked with guarding Bangladesh's long and porous border with India.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]It only ended after Hasina met a group of BDR troops and threatened to use force if they did not surrender. Six of those who met the prime minister are on the wanted list for the killing spree.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The government has said it will set up a special tribunal to try those behind the killing spree, with some facing execution by hanging.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The prime minister initially declared an amnesty for those who surrendered, but later said those who committed murder would be punished.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Most of the bodies recovered were found in shallow graves concealed under leaves and loose dirt in the BDR compound.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Divers pulled some bodies from underground sewers and an operation was under way to flush out the depot's drainage system to check for further corpses.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Bangladesh's short history has been steeped in political bloodshed, coups and counter-coups since a brutal 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Hasina's own family was decimated in a 1975 coup with her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's first head of state, killed along with his wife and three sons. Hasina and her sister were out of the country at the time. [/FONT]
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<HR width="100%" SIZE=2>Bangladesh hunts for mutineers after deadly revolt
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]6 hours ago[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]DHAKA (AFP) — Bangladesh on Monday hunted for 1,000 fugitive soldiers accused of butchering their senior officers in a mutiny which left 150 people dead or missing and raised fears for the new civilian government.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The bloodshed presented Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with a major crisis little more than two months after she won power in elections that ended two years of army rule in the impoverished South Asian country.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Hasina ordered the military to join the search for the mutineers, and also sought help from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United Nations and British police.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"We have given the rebels who fled 24 hours to surrender and that expired at 4:00 pm Sunday, so I have summoned the army and other forces to hunt them," the prime minister told parliament late Sunday.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Hasina said arrest warrants had been issued for 1,000 soldiers, as well as accomplices "who organised cars, boats to help (the mutineers) flee."[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The Brussels-based International Crisis Group said that Hasina was moving to pre-empt any attempts at a military takeover.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"Steps taken by the government appear to have reduced the threat of any coup," the group said in a statement on Monday, though it warned the country still faced "a significant conflict risk."[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The soldiers fled the Dhaka headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on Thursday, apparently dressed as civilians, after a 33-hour mutiny which turned the capital into a battle zone.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]They left behind gruesome scenes with at least 78 bodies, many mutilated by bayonets, dumped in mass graves and thrown down drains. Some 70 senior army officers are still missing.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]President Zillur Rahman led huge crowds gathered in Dhaka on Monday for the funerals of 50 of the dead, including the BDR chief and his wife.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The revolt reportedly stemmed from a dispute over pay and conditions in the BDR force, which is tasked with guarding Bangladesh's long and porous border with India.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]It only ended after Hasina met a group of BDR troops and threatened to use force if they did not surrender. Six of those who met the prime minister are on the wanted list for the killing spree.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The government has said it will set up a special tribunal to try those behind the killing spree, with some facing execution by hanging.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]The prime minister initially declared an amnesty for those who surrendered, but later said those who committed murder would be punished.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Most of the bodies recovered were found in shallow graves concealed under leaves and loose dirt in the BDR compound.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Divers pulled some bodies from underground sewers and an operation was under way to flush out the depot's drainage system to check for further corpses.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Bangladesh's short history has been steeped in political bloodshed, coups and counter-coups since a brutal 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.[/FONT]
[FONT=tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Hasina's own family was decimated in a 1975 coup with her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's first head of state, killed along with his wife and three sons. Hasina and her sister were out of the country at the time. [/FONT]
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