Bangladesh Rifles is going to hold a meeting in Durbar Hall, at the border force's Peelkhana headquarters on Monday, the first since the bloody events of last February, said BDR's director general on Saturday. "It is the first organisational activity at the hall since the mutiny," BDR chief Maj Gen Moinul Islam told reporter.

Dhaka BDR personnel have held one durbar since the mutiny, on the Peelkhana Parade Ground, said Gen Moinul. But, he said, this will be the first meeting in Durbar Hall itself since February, when the force's annual durbar ended with a massacre of over 50 officers who were assembled at the hall, including Gen Moinul's predecessor, the then BDR chief Maj Gen Shakil Ahmed.

"The situation in Peelkhana is now calm. Fifteen army officers (deputed to the border force) have already started residing there with their family members," said Gen Moinul. "I myself am live at Peelkhana. I hope all officers will be living there within a very short period," he said. "Some damaged buildings need repairing and that is on. All army officers will move there respectively after the repair work is done," said the BDR chief. Gen Moinul said BDR members in Dhaka would attend the Monday's function at Darbar Hall. Over seventy people were killed in the Feb 26-28 massacre, of whom 57 were army officers, the rest of the victims were BDR members and civilian bystanders.