BDR Mutiny Day 2 | Photo 05

Army soldiers loading ammunition into the tanks. Despite the BDR demands for the army to withdraw, at least eight tanks were deployed by the army onto the main street leading to the BDR compound. 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