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A court in Bangladesh has sentenced at least 152 soldiers to death over a bloody border guard mutiny in 2009.
More than 150 others, mostly border guards, were given life sentences.
Most of the 800 soldiers who packed the civilian court on Tuesday had already been given maximum seven-year sentences by military tribunals.
But they also faced charges for crimes including murder that were committed individually during the 30-hour uprising over pay and other grievances.
The mutiny broke out in Dhaka and left 74 people dead, 57 of them officers.
While the army courts investigated breaches of military law - jailing nearly 6,000 troops - the civilian court that passed Tuesday's sentences was able to pass the death penalty.
SOURCE: BBC
Read more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24817887
More than 150 others, mostly border guards, were given life sentences.
Most of the 800 soldiers who packed the civilian court on Tuesday had already been given maximum seven-year sentences by military tribunals.
But they also faced charges for crimes including murder that were committed individually during the 30-hour uprising over pay and other grievances.
The mutiny broke out in Dhaka and left 74 people dead, 57 of them officers.
While the army courts investigated breaches of military law - jailing nearly 6,000 troops - the civilian court that passed Tuesday's sentences was able to pass the death penalty.
SOURCE: BBC
Read more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24817887
