It is six months since a sudden and extremely violent revolt broke out at a military camp in the centre of Dhaka. I have been talking to some of the people who experienced it close up for a BBC World Service programme called Assignment.
And this is a shorter version that I wrote for the BBC [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Mutiny’
August 27, 2009
Six months on
March 3, 2009
Mutiny that became a massacre
A crazy, scary past week for Dhaka:
For about five hours, bullets whizzed over rooftops and the occasional thud of mortar rounds echoed along the strangely empty streets.
Dhaka is one of the most congested cities on the planet, but for once there were no traffic jams.
Instead the army had planted rows of anti-aircraft cannons at key [...]
