An ugly report from The New Nation: Mass grave at BDR HQ. Excerpt:
With the recovery of 51 more bodies of the army officers from ditches near the Darbar Hall inside the BDR headquarters at Peelkhana in the capital and nearby canal yesterday, the official death toll in the two-day BDR mutity mounted to nearly 100.
The body of slain BDR chief Maj Gen Shakil Ahmed was among the bodies retrieved yesterday.
The Guardian has more details.
The Bangladesh Rifles are the country's border patrol, and this episode seems likely to make that border even more porous than it already is. Until the mutiny is completely settled, illegal trade into and out of India is likely to continue and increase.
Whether or not H5N1 becomes part of that trade, the countries are likely to blame any new outbreaks on each other. That in turn will make it harder to implement real safeguards.
