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| Bangladesh to disband border force |
| 2009-03-22 |
| Bangladesh says it will disband the country's border force and raise a new paramilitary unit to replace it. Good idea. My original suggestion: Disband the unit, burn the colors, decimate the troops. Still hoping for three out of three. The announcement on Saturday came nearly a month after troops of the Bangladesh Rifles(BDR) staged a bloody mutiny in the capital, Dhaka. "A new border force will be raised soon with disciplined and competent troops, including those not involved in the BDR mutiny," Brigadier-General Moinul Islam, the new BDR chief, was quoted by the Reuters news agency as telling border security officials at Mymensingh, 150km north of Dhaka. "The BDR, which has been maligned by last month's mutiny, will stand disbanded," he said. And its colors burnt? More than 70 people, mainly Bangladeshi army officers, were killed in the mutiny at the Dhaka headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles. The incident, which began on February 25, ended after 33 hours when the rebels laid down their arms. Some did. Others beat it with or without their arms. The mutinous border guards ambushed their superiors, shooting and burying dozens of them in shallow graves. The ambush was apparently sparked by grievances of poor pay and work conditions. Yasss. I can remember my days in the military, how we used to pot our officers if we ran short or the work conditions got poor. Once, when I was a PFC, I brought down a full-grown bull colonel at 600 yards. 'Outside help' Sheikh Hasina, the Bangladeshi prime minister, has said that the mutiny was part of a conspiracy against her two-month old government. She has said that the border guards may have had outside help. She, however, did not say who she suspects of being linked to the planning of the mutiny. The Bangladeshi government has called for help from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in probing leads into the attack. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 The Indian govt will be happy if this happens. Their troops have been exchanging regular shots with the Bangla border guards. The Banglas have been very "lax" about letting terrs and illegal immigrants crose into India and this annoys the Indians no end. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2009-03-22 22:52 |
| #9 Only his trunk would swing anyway, lotp. And trunks tend to be pretty big... even for the smallest baby elephant of them all, O Best Beloved.* *A very, very small additional joke... or it was before he met the crocodile. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-03-22 15:09 |
| #8 yes, yes, I know .... I was making additional small joke. Apparently, it was a VERY small additional joke ... |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-03-22 14:50 |
| #7 The full Grouch joke. I went to Darkest Africa where I once shot an elephant in my pajams. How he got in my pajamas I'll never kmow. I tried to take his tusks out but they were too tight so I went to Alabama where the Tuscaloosa. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2009-03-22 13:11 |
| #6 Oh! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2009-03-22 13:01 |
| #5 Never heard of Groucho Marx? the elephant in his pajamas is his joke. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-03-22 12:39 |
| #4 And I have no idea how he got into my pajamas. Goodness, Fred! I had no idea you ... um ... swing that way. The things one learns at Rantburg. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-03-22 11:34 |
| #3 Was the Bull Colonel Fragile? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2009-03-22 08:29 |
| #2 And I have no idea how he got into my pajamas. |
| Posted by: Fred 2009-03-22 00:42 |
| #1 Once, when I was a PFC, I brought down a full-grown bull colonel at 600 yards. In your pajamas? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-03-22 00:34 |