BDR Mutiny Day 2

Mukhul speaks to his brother in Korea as he waits for news about his other brother, Major Alam Ghil, Acting Commander of Satkhira Sector, who he last spoke to on the phone on Wednesday morning. His brother had told him that it was not safe and that the situation within the compound was "very bad".At least eight tanks were deployed by the army onto the main streets as the mutiny by the Bangladeshi paramilitary border guards, the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), continued into its second day. Despite an earlier agreement made following talks with the prime minster, the BDR refused to surrender its arms until the army had completely left the area near the BDR headquarters in Dhanmondi, Dhaka, and pulled out of BDR camps country-wide. They were seeking