Bangladesh Law 126 Sportsmen because it Involved an uprising

DHAKA, Kompas.com — more than 126 sportsman Bangladesh, including the Achievers International, jailed on Sunday (12/8/2012). According to a Prosecutor that State, it is done because of their role in a bloody rebellion in 2009.

As many as 58 senior officers of the army were killed in an uprising that began when troops at the headquarters of the Bangladesh National Army (BDR) in Dhaka capital murder, which engulfed the action then dead bodies dumped in the water channels and in shallow graves.

A special military court in Dhaka decided 329 border guards involved in assisting the rebellion, which included 124 soldiers representing the army as a sportsman. So says Prosecutor Efficacious Nature told AFP.

"They include the football (soccer), volleyball, weightlifting, boxing, BDR archers and other teams. Some of them are national champion. At least the name of the country they represent in international meetings, "said Alam.

"A former captain of Bangladesh national volleyball are among those who are imprisoned," he said referring to the Shafizuddin, who uses one name, and in the past grabbed the national award.

At least 37 sentenced to imprisonment of seven years, the highest in that case, the word nature. He adds, some people got a lighter prison sentence due to their achievements in the sport.

BDR teams for decades controlled the national sports including volleyball, weightlifting, boxing and basket ball. After the rebellion changed its name to the BDR border guards of Bangladesh (BGB-Border Guard Bangladesh).

The rebellion expanded from Dhaka to the BDR outposts across the country, with thousands of border guards take up arms against their commanders in the worst military uprising in the history of Bangladesh.

Dozens of special courts which dealt with military-meggunakan civil legislation and laws set up to prosecute emergency-the rebels, with the verdict meted out to the first 29 soldiers in April 2010.

More than 4,000 BDR soldiers have been punished, says nature, in what is called the prosecution's biggest cases in the history of Bangladesh. Hearings are being conducted against 1,400 others.

Courts, which led the military officers would not allow the defendants to have counsel and no right to appeal. The seven-year sentence was the highest law that can be put in place.