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BDR Carnage

20 stolen cellphones still in use at times

Emran Hossain
Immediate after the mutiny broke out at BDR Headquarters, cellphone was the only means of communication for the trapped army officers most of who were killed in the next hours.
Reports of the army officers contacting their families were frequent until 11:00am on February' 25. The phones later went off as fhe mutiny degenerated into a bloodbath and over 50 officers were killed.
Bodies of the killed officers were later recovered from the mass graves and sewage, but there cellphones went missing. This prompted the investigators to find out what happened to their mobile phones.
Twenty' of the phones are still found on sometimes and the investigators are trying to track down the users.
So far only four such users have been trapped. Investigation sources say they suspect the devices have been either handed to mutineers’family members or sold out.
They say the task of tracking down the missing cellphone users has become time consuming as many of them stay outside Dhaka.
The investigators have however confirmed that pone of the mutineers are using the missing cellphones.
Of the four trapped, Biplob, son of former BDR cook Mohammad Farid, of Hazaribagh was held with the cellphone of killed Maj Humayun Haider. Earlier on February 27, Biplob was picked up by Rab and remanded for three days.
Biplob allegedly had involvement with the mutineers and was also seen in BDR uniform
during the mutiny inside the headquarters.
During an investigation by The Daily Star, Biplob gave dubious information, while his parents also tried to conceal their identity.
According to eyewitness Fahad, Biplob, who was also a former BDR cook, was in uniform while handing him the cellphone and a camera from inside the gate 5 of the headquarters at 4:00pm on February 25.
Biplob claims to have received the mobile and camera from a mutineer when he was standing outside the gate along with hundreds of locals at 11:00am the same day.
He claims he handed the cellphone and camera to Fahad for taking it to his (Biplob's) house soon after receiving those.
Instead, Fahad "mistakenly" took the cellphone and camera to his place. As soon as his mother Minu Ara opened the phone, it began ringing and she realised it belonged to an army officer currently under attack
She said Biplob's elder brother Kamal showed up and demanded the devices, but she denied handing those over to him.
"My brother is a mutineer and can shoot you dead any moment. I give you two minutes to surrender the cellphone and the camera," Minu quoted Kamal as shouting to her.
At this stage, Biplob appeared and claimed that he purchased those, she added.
Rab picked up Biplob for the second time for interrogation suspecting his involvement with the mutiny on Wednesday.
"We are considering sending him to Task Force for Interrogation this time as we have found an eyewitness to Biplob's involvement with the mutineers," says a Rab official involved with recovery of the cellphone.
During the first phase interrogation Biplob identified some mutineers seeing video foolages and later Rab released him on condition that he would help them trap at least 15 mutineers.
The investigators were tight-lipped about the other three tracked down in connection with the cellphones.
"Once we trap the current users of the killed army officers' cellphones we’ll have important information leading to identification of the mutineers," says a top-level Rab investigator.
"We don't know what happened to the rest of the cellphones. We didn't find those. The cellphones might be lost when the officers were killed or taken away by tlie mutineers or destroyed/'he adds.