Dhaka  - Authorities in Bangladesh are leveling charges against more than one thousand troops Sunday, three days after a mutiny in the headquarters of paramilitary border guards left scores of army officers dead, officials said.

Police commander Nabo Jyoti Kisha lodged the charges against troopers led by six junior officers of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) force, accusing them of rebellion against their commanders.

The charges accuse the troops of premeditation in the murder of army officers and their spouses with firearms and explosives.

Dhaka, Mar 1 : The Bangladesh Government will ask the law ministry to form a special tribunal immediately to try those guilty of criminal acts during the mutiny at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters.

According to the latest decision, Local Government Minister Syed Ashraful Islam said the government has some evidence which indicates the involvement of people outside the BDR.

Dhaka  - The government of Bangladesh announced Saturday that it intends to prosecute members of a paramilitary border force that mutinied this week by special tribunal, as more graves of the mutineers victims were discovered.

"The law ministry was asked to enact laws for the speedy trial of the killers and looters," Syed Ashraful Islam, the Local Government Rural Development and Cooperatives minister, told a press briefing after an emergency meeting of the council of ministers and senior leaders of the ruling Awami League party.

Dhaka, Feb. 28 : As Bangladesh observes a three-day mourning, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced that the perpetrators of the carnage committed during BDR's mutiny would not be pardoned under general amnesty given to others. They will be punished as per law of the land.

"They will be tried according to law and punished," the Daily Star quoted PM''s press secretary Abul Kalam Azad as saying.

Dhaka, Feb. 28 : While an official version about the mayhem perpetrated during the mutiny of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) is still awaited, some survivors and BDR troops have claimed that the whole incident of killings was spearheaded by a group of 20-25 non-commissioned soldiers.

These non-commissioned soldiers forced others to take up guns and participate in the savagery that followed, stated some of the surviving officers and fleeing mutineers in The Daily Star .

Dhaka, Feb. 28 : The discovery of a mass grave on Friday, which included the mutilated body of the Bangladesh Rifles Director General among 38 other officers in a small ditch at the premises of BDR headquarters, has numbed people in Bangladesh.

People here are perturbed after learning about the kind of savagery meted out to the deceased. Rescuers fear there might be more unmarked mass graves at Pilkhana.