Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) yesterday published the names of 23 jawans who remained fugitive since the February 25-26 massacre in its headquarters at Pilkhana. People have been requested to inform about the hiding jawans to the nearest police station.

The fugitive sepoys are: Main Uddin (Naogaon), Bishu Mitra Barua (Chittagong), Rezaul Karim (Chittagong), Ayub Ali (Brahmanbaria), Baki Billah (Nilphamari), Atiqur Rahman (Shariatpur), Sadullah (Cox's Bazar), Mizanur Rahman (Sherpur), Pulton Chakma (Khagrachhari), Mukul Alam (Gaibandha), Kamrul Hasan (Luxmipur), Meshbah Uddin (Chittagong), Kamrul Islam (Khulna), Selim (Chittagong), Nurul (Cox's Bazar), Al Mamun (Satkhira), Hamidul Islam (Faridpur), Hasibur Rahman (Sherpur), Anisur Rahman (Sirajganj), Farhad Hossain (Naogaon), Mizanur Rahman (Chittagong), Moqbul Hassen (Lalmonirhat) and Nazrul Islam Mallik (Barisal).

BDR sources said they might be hiding abroad since the BDR massacre. Director General of BDR Major General Mainul Islam yesterday told The Independent that the 23 sepoys remained fugitive after 'Operation Rebel Hunt.' "We have given names of the fugitive BDR sepoys with photographs to the Director General of Border Security Force (BSF) of India recently seeking help to arrest them," he said. On May 24, the BDR authority said a total of 25 sepoys remained fugitive. Of them, only two of them were arrested during 'Operation Rebel Hunt,' which ended recently.

-The Independent