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Relief only after verdict execution

Say some widows of slain army officers

Tamanna Khan
Widows of 10 of the army officers killed during the Pilkhana BDR carnage gathered at the special tribunal yesterday to listen to the judge deliver the verdict.
In the courtroom packed with lawyers, journalists and the accused, they sat calmly waiting for the judge to arrive and read out the sentence to 846 people involved in the killing of 74 people, including 57 army officers.
As the judge started calling the convicts by their charge sheet numbers, Musrat Jahan, the widow of
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Lt Col Abu Musa Md Ayub Kaiser, murmured that she could not identify the convicts from the charge sheet number.
Gazing at the convicts behind a grilled section, she said," I do not recognise all the faces. I remember only a few of them."
Naznin Noor Sweetie, wife of Col Kazi Emdadul Haque, said which convict killed which officer should be named. She was talking to reporters after the verdict was passed.
The aggrieved widows said they did not want to comment on the verdict yet, since yesterday’s judgment was not final, and could be challenged at the Appellate division of the Supreme Court.
"We have looked to the state and the state has done its job," said Nehreen Ferdousi, widowed wife of Col Mujibul Haque, Dhaka commander of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) “fair price shops" programme, run during the term of the last caretaker government to curb price hikes of essentials.
Corruption in the programme is alleged to be the main reason for the mutiny.
"We have heard the judgment after about five years. We will now wait patiently for the execution of the verdict. Once that is done, we will get some relief," she said.
Nehreen, who was in the BDR compound during the carnage, said that during the last four years and eight months she could not get rid of the harrowing memories of February 25-26,2009.
Dr Royena Matin, wife of Lt Col Inshad Ibne Amin, told reporteis like Nehreen that she wanted to know the real reason behind the mutiny.
"What could have caused such sheer brutality is still unknown to us," Nehreen observed.
She expressed shock at the way the mutineers receiving death penalty and life imprisonment had threatened the judge as he read out the verdict.
"What makes them so audacious? Their behaviour in the courtroom has dredged up ourSEE ONLINE FOR LIST OF SLAIN ARMY OFFICERS