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Bangladesh gives mass death sentences to rebels from 2009 mutiny

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  • Bangladesh gives mass death sentences to rebels from 2009 mutiny

    Very interesting development.

    It would be interesting to see them pull this off

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/wo...desh.html?_r=0

    Excerpt:
    DHAKA, Bangladesh — In an apparently unprecedented ruling, 152 former members of the Bangladesh Rifles, a paramilitary border security force, were sentenced to death on Tuesday in connection with a bloody 2009 mutiny in which several thousand troops took control of their headquarters, demanding better working conditions, and killed scores of people.
    As Bengali myself, I have a soft corner for Bangladesh. Hope they emerge stronger out of this.
    "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" ~ Epicurus
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