Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the three-day Rifles Week at the then Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters on February 24, 2009. Rifles Week was supposed to end on February 26 with a three-day colorful show.
According to the program, the second day of the second day at 9 am BDR Durbar started at the Durbar Hall. At the beginning of the program, BDR Director General (DG) Major General Shakil Ahmed started his speech.
The attack of the misguided members that day was killed 74 people including 57 army officers. Among the rifles week, 25 February BDTO Jonaers were killed in the Narakhit massacre of history.
But it took two more days to realize this brutal massacre inside the four sides of Pilkhana and the 33 hours of the rebellion of the 26th February night ended with the 33 hours of the rebellion of Pilkhana.
On February 27, several mass graves were found inside the Pilkhana, where the bodies of the BDR Director General Major General Shakeel Ahmed, his wife and army officers were found. A large amount of weapons including grenades were recovered.
After the murder in Narki, two cases were registered under the Lalbagh Thana Murder and Explosives Act on February 28. Later, two cases were transferred to the Newmarket Thana, Dhaka Metropolitan Triti Court Judge Md. Akhtaruzzaman announced the case on November 5, 2013.
152 people including former DAD Tauhid of BDR were sentenced to life imprisonment and 256 people were sentenced to life imprisonment and 256 people were sentenced in various cases. The allegations were not proved.
what happened that day
According to the details of the incident, a group of zombies took hostages of a major in the arsenal and looted arms and ammunition in the courtroom, which was not stopped by a BDR member who was not stopped by the statement of the witnesses and soldiers in the court.
On 25th February at 9 am, the annual court started at the Darbar Hall.
DG Shakeel Ahmed entered the Durbar Hall after 9 o'clock and sat on the stage. During Shakeel's speech at around 9 o'clock, Sepoy Main got on the stage and went to the DG. He had a weapon, and Brigadier General MA Bari pushed him and tied his shoelaces to the ribbon and disarmed him.
Immediately, a section of the stray BDR soldiers entered the Durbar Hall and started shouting and shouting in front of the Director General.
After that, a group led by Sepoy Salim Raza entered the armed situation and entered the Durbar Hall and then all the situations went on outside the control. The gunshots started inside.
45-50 people, including DG, DDG and senior officials, stayed in the Durbar Hall and held discussions while the sepoys organized themselves outside in the Gita. Around 9:40 am, a group of soldiers of BDR, who were tied noses and mouths, shot around the Durbar Hall for a while.
Dizzy was still looking for a solution. In the morning, 10-10 rebel soldiers were shouting for help from various mobile phones, and 15-16 rebels were standing under the stage with their faces covered in cupboards.
DG was present on the north side of the Durbar Hall stage curtain. The rebels were saying to the handmic, ‘If there is anyone inside, come out.’ A soldier with a cup of his face entered the stage with his arms in his hand and shouted, ‘Is there anyone inside?’ Everyone came out.' At the same time, he shot two shots at the officials.
After that, the other officials came out on the screen, including the DG, and the officers came down the stage and put DG Shakeel in the round and shouted indecent language and asked them to stand on the single line. After that, they started killing each other, and the army officers and their families were killed, torture, hostage, looting and arson.
They took a peaceful stay at Dhanmondi and Neelkhet Moon at 11:00 A.D., Artillery Gun and armored vehicles were set up at various locations including Gate 1 and 5. The rebels fired at the army personnel from the headquarters gate and Gate No. 3.
When the Leaflet was released on the air force in an air force helicopter around 12:30 p.m., the rebels fired at the helicopter and said they had to come to the Pilkhana for discussion.
At around 1.30 am, the then chairman of Jubo League Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Whip Mirza Azam went in front of gate number 4 of Pilkhana with a white flag on behalf of the Prime Minister.
14-member BDR delegation led by DAD Tauhid was taken to the Rashtriya Guest House Yamuna around 3:30 pm and they spoke to the Prime Minister there. In the meeting, the Prime Minister announced amnesty to the rebels and ordered to return to the barracks with arms surrendered.
But at 7 pm, the rebel jawans demanded that the Prime Minister's amnesty announcement be published in the form of a notification, in the evening, the bodies of the dead army officers were cut off on the ground after disconnecting the electricity connection of the Pilkhana.
February 26 Surrender
From the afternoon of February 26, the number of Pilkhanas BDRs started to decrease. Seeing the situation, the BDR Jons continued to move to different parts of the Pilkhana, and the rebels led by DAD Tauhid again said that the rebels were surrendering their arms.
On the night of 26th of February, they gave the keys to the keys to various important structures, including weapons and arsenals, to Home Minister Sahara Khatun, which ended the 33-hour rebellion when the police took the pillkhana and found several mass graves inside the Pilkhana on February 27.
According to the investigation report, the scheming was prepared for the rebellion in front of the court event.
It is known that on February 24, BNP leader Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu spoke to his house. Later, Pintu went to their gate number 5.
