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.
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.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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