Speaking at an event in Bogra Cantonment, the army chief said: “Whatever the army does, it always maintains complete transparency. On September 29, the family of a 12-year-old Rohingya girl accused three members of an army patrolling team of raping her after barging into their shanty in Nayapara Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. On October 5, the Inter Service Public Relation Directorate issued a press statement saying the Bangladesh Army headquarters had taken the allegations seriously andformed a high-level probe committee to investigate the incident. He also talked about how the present government has contributed to the army's Armoured Corps and the armed forces as a whole. About the Sixth Armoured Corps, he said: “Thanks to the present government, state-of-the-art battle tank MBT-2000 and recovery vehicles have been added to this corps.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 11, 2019 05:03 UTC