The main aim of the recent BDR mutiny in Bangladesh was to grab power and nothing else
Was the recent bloody mutiny by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) simply to demand better service conditions? Well the perceived wisdom is that events much greater than the economic grievances that sparked the two-day running battle between the BDR and the Bangladesh army in Dhaka’s urban centres and some other areas. The BDR is said to have been vying for participation in the lucrative UN peacekeeping missions and restructuring of the forces. But many Bangladesh watchers are now arguing that the scale of the rebellion belies the staid notion that only economic demands were behind it. What's more? Such concerns could easily have been addressed by employing conventional trade union pressure tactics. But the BDR unleashed a virtual reign of terror, holding several army officers and their families hostage and mowing down a good number of them. It is just not possible – indeed even probable – that the upheaval was driven with the simple aim of grabbing political power? A great deal goes to support such a notion. The timing of the revolt itself gives one pause – coming as it did at a time when Sheikh Hasina was still to settle down in the PM's office. It came on January 6, immediately after her swearing-in. Her party, the Awami League, had swept the long deferred general elections, thanks to the military’s meddling.
The strong suspicion of a deeper conspiracy comes from reports that the BDR mutiny had the secret backing of a section of Bangladesh’s army officers, including Army Chief, Moeen Ahmed. Ahmed is widely perceived to be a secular officer, who had been put out of reckoning. He is credited with taking on numerous fundamentalist outfits close to Begum Khaleda Zia, leader of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP), whom Sheikh Hasina overthrew. "There are definite indications that even the army was split down the ranks,” Deepak Dastidar, a well known Bangladesh specialist told B&E.
It is well known that Ahmed was committed to rolling back the Talibanisation of Bangladesh, which had proceeded during the years when the hawkish Begum Zia was at the helm. Indeed it is an open secret that in all those years her government gave the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) a free hand. The result: Islamists felt completely undeterred to terrorise the nation’s Hindu minorities. This was coupled with the enforcement of a rigid Taliban culture on the Muslim community. No wonder that during Begum Zia''s second term in office (2001-2006), a large number of JI and JMB elements were able to penetrate the army’s ranks. Undoubtedly, all these events show that the BDR mutiny was actually a well orchestrated move to derail the liberals.
Was the recent bloody mutiny by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) simply to demand better service conditions? Well the perceived wisdom is that events much greater than the economic grievances that sparked the two-day running battle between the BDR and the Bangladesh army in Dhaka’s urban centres and some other areas. The BDR is said to have been vying for participation in the lucrative UN peacekeeping missions and restructuring of the forces. But many Bangladesh watchers are now arguing that the scale of the rebellion belies the staid notion that only economic demands were behind it. What's more? Such concerns could easily have been addressed by employing conventional trade union pressure tactics. But the BDR unleashed a virtual reign of terror, holding several army officers and their families hostage and mowing down a good number of them. It is just not possible – indeed even probable – that the upheaval was driven with the simple aim of grabbing political power? A great deal goes to support such a notion. The timing of the revolt itself gives one pause – coming as it did at a time when Sheikh Hasina was still to settle down in the PM's office. It came on January 6, immediately after her swearing-in. Her party, the Awami League, had swept the long deferred general elections, thanks to the military’s meddling.
The strong suspicion of a deeper conspiracy comes from reports that the BDR mutiny had the secret backing of a section of Bangladesh’s army officers, including Army Chief, Moeen Ahmed. Ahmed is widely perceived to be a secular officer, who had been put out of reckoning. He is credited with taking on numerous fundamentalist outfits close to Begum Khaleda Zia, leader of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP), whom Sheikh Hasina overthrew. "There are definite indications that even the army was split down the ranks,” Deepak Dastidar, a well known Bangladesh specialist told B&E.
It is well known that Ahmed was committed to rolling back the Talibanisation of Bangladesh, which had proceeded during the years when the hawkish Begum Zia was at the helm. Indeed it is an open secret that in all those years her government gave the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) a free hand. The result: Islamists felt completely undeterred to terrorise the nation’s Hindu minorities. This was coupled with the enforcement of a rigid Taliban culture on the Muslim community. No wonder that during Begum Zia''s second term in office (2001-2006), a large number of JI and JMB elements were able to penetrate the army’s ranks. Undoubtedly, all these events show that the BDR mutiny was actually a well orchestrated move to derail the liberals.
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