1,000 to be tried for murder in Dhaka

Bangladeshi police charged more than 1,000 border guards with murder and arson yesterday after mutiny in the capital left as many as 148 people dead or missing, most of them army officers.

The government announced plans to form a special tribunal to try the guards who organized the mutiny.

Of a total of 181 officers, only 33 are known to have survived the uprising at the Bangladesh Rifles border force headquarters in Dhaka, said army spokesman Brigadier General Mahmud Hossain.