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Ex-army chief says munitions were made for insurgency

Regular army does not use this type of ammunition

UNB, Dhaka
Former army chief General (retd) Mustafizur Rahman has said the munitions recovered in Bogra were made for use in insurgency or unconventional warfare.
"The ammunition and explosives, wherever they might have been manufactured, are designed to be used by insurgents. A regular army doesn't use such ammunition; they cannot use bullets not marked with the name of the manufacturer," he said.
Mustafizur Rahman and Col (retd) Saqlain Hossain, an ammunition and explosives expert, accompanied the Awami League parliamentary team that visited Bogra and presented their observations at a press conference yesterday.
The former army chief believes the bullets were manufactured either in a Chinese factory or a factory set up with Chinese technology. Pakistan has an ordnance fac-
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tory producing bullets similar to those recovered in Bogra, he added.
The recovered bullets are of 7.62x39 size, he said, adding that India produces the 7.62x51 size. "Bangladesh also produces bullets like the recovered ones, but I don't believe those were smuggled out from the local factory," Mustafizur Rahman said.
"If it is suspected that the bullets were made at the Bangladesh Ordnance Factory, the government should come up with a clarification," said the former army chief.
As police now use Chinese rifles, Mustafizur Rahman said, it should also be investigated whether they can independently import their ammunition.
He said the government should find out whether the ammunition and explosives were brought for subversive acts in the country, as many extremist groups have been active since independence.
"There are anti-liberation elements. There are extremist groups in many areas. The bullets used to kill two policemen (in Rupsha, Khulna) and the bullets recovered (in Bogra) should be examined to find out whether
those are similar," he said.
Mustafizur asked how the ammunition and explosives, believed to have been loaded on a truck in Habiganj, could travel 500 kilometres and reach a Bogra point, which is connected by road, railway and waterways with the 21 troubled districts in the southern region.
He also pointed out, without committing himself to any particular position, that West Bengal's Dinajpur district is adjacent to the place from where the munitions were recovered and Nepal and Assam are within 150-200 kilometres.
He demanded a technical inquiry comprising experts from BUET, the ordnance factory, army and police.
Col (retd) Saqlain told the press conference that the technical experts would be able to find out where the ammunition and explosives were manufactured.
He said both the ammunition and explosives were packed in an unconventional way. " The absence of the manufacturer's name on the bullets does indicate that they were made to be used in unconventional wars, " added Saqlain.