1,000 Guards Charged In Mutiny Massacre

Mutinous soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles stand inside their headquarters in Dhaka. Photo: Reuters

Bangladesh Charges 1,000 Guards In Mutiny Massacre -- AP

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladeshi police charged more than 1,000 border guards with murder and arson Sunday after a bloody mutiny in the capital that left as many as 148 people dead or missing, most of them army officers.

The government announced plans to form a special tribunal to try the border guards who organized the mutiny.

Of a total of 181 officers, only 33 are known to have survived the uprising at the Bangladesh Rifles border force headquarters in Dhaka, said army spokesman Brig. Gen. Mahmud Hossain.

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