Do not force me to take action: Hasina warns mutineers

July 28th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Rehana and their children will get Special Security Force (SSF) protection in view of threats to their lives, as per an executive order. Hasina Monday chaired a cabinet meeting that approved the Father of the Nation's Family Members' Security Bill 2009 with immediate effect "to ensure lifelong and foolproof security", New Age newspaper reported Tuesday.

July 28th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Rehana and their children will get Special Security Force (SSF) protection in view of threats to their lives as per an executive order. Hasina Monday chaired a cabinet meeting that approved the 'Father of the Nation's Family Members' Security Bill 2009' with immediate effect "to ensure lifelong and foolproof security", New Age newspaper reported Tuesday.

March 22nd, 2009 DHAKA - The Bangladesh Government has said it would hold a fair trial of the border guards who staged a mutiny last month and will allow them facility for self-defence. The assurance came two days after Human Rights Watch, a US-based body, expressed concern at civilians being tried by a military court and sought transparency of the legal processes involved, The Daily Star newspaper reported Saturday.

March 13th, 2009 DHAKA - Angry Bangladeshi army officers have shouted down Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a private meeting, blaming her for the murder of over 70 officers by mutineering border security guards. The ferocity of the army's anger was revealed yesterday when ministers lifted a ban on secret recordings of the clash on YouTube.

March 10th, 2009 DHAKA - The panel formed to investigate the Bangladesh Rifles troopers' mutiny has been given a week's extension by the Sheikh Hasina government. The home ministry extended the tenure of the 11-member committee following a request by the committee head Anisuzzaman Khan Sunday, The Daily Star reported.

March 10th, 2009 DHAKA - The investigation into the Bangladesh Rifles troopers' mutiny last month has shown that the carnage could be 'pre-planned' and around 450 border guards were involved in the massacre in which 74 people were killed. The investigation into the BDR mutiny revealed that 'some outsiders' had knowledge about the rebellion, a top official of a law enforcement agency said.

March 8th, 2009 DHAKA - A team of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) would arrive here Sunday to help the country investigate the Feb 25 border guards mutiny, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said. After attending a programme in a hotel here, the foreign minister told reporters that the FBI team would arrive in Dhaka later Sunday.

March 4th, 2009 DHAKA - The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has 'agreed to help' Bangladesh in carrying out forensic investigations into the Bangladesh Rifles troopers' mutiny, a media report said. Acting Deputy State Department spokesman Gordon Duguid told a press briefing in Washington Tuesday that he believed that the FBI would agree to help Bangladesh in investigating the BDR revolt, The Daily Star reported Wednesday.

March 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Terming the mutiny by border guards in Bangladesh as an internal matter of the neighbouring country, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Sunday said the Sheikh Hasina government was competent enough to handle it. 'It's an internal matter of Bangladesh.

March 2nd, 2009 DHAKA - Authorities in Bangladesh were levelling charges against more than a thousand troopers Sunday, three days after a mutiny in the headquarters of paramilitary border guards left scores of army officers dead, officials said. Police commander Nabo Jyoti Kisha lodged the charges against troopers led by six junior officers of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) force, accusing them of rebellion against their commanders.

March 1st, 2009 DHAKA - Political differences have surfaced over the probe into the killing of over 60 army officers in a revolt by troopers of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) as the government said it would complete its probe within a week and a special tribunal would try the mutineers. As veiled charges of 'vested interest' and 'outside forces' being behind the mutiny continued to fly, main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) demanded an all-party probe body to include army representatives.

February 28th, 2009 DHAKA - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday vowed to book the instigators of the bloody 33-hour mutiny by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) personnel, saying 'a certain quarter must be involved' in the massacre of over 60 army officers who headed the paramilitary unit. 'Nobody could have staged the rebellion alone.

February 27th, 2009 DHAKA - Tanks moved into position to prepare for an assault on the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters where mutinous troopers, who had battled the army Wednesday, were holed up. An agreement with the government to resolve the impasse seemed to flounder as the mutiny spread to other parts of the country with at least 50 deaths reported.

February 26th, 2009 DHAKA - The mutiny by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) troopers, who battled the army Wednesday, spread to several towns Thursday as Prime minister Sheikh Hasina warned of stern action to quell the unrest. The fate of BDR chief Major General Shakil Ahmed and other senior army officers missing since Wednesday was not known yet.

January 28th, 2009 DHAKA - 'Militants have no religion,' Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said, adding it was wrong for anyone to think that action against them was an attack on Islam. She reiterated her government's resolve to coordinate action with other South Asian nations, a media report said.