“We had long been waiting for this verdict. The verdict has helped BGB get rid of its smeared image,” said Aziz, in his immediate reaction to the verdict.
On Tuesday, 152 people, including the masterminds of the mutiny, were sentenced to death.
161 people were handed down life sentences.
256 others got between three to ten years in prison. 277 were accquited.
Seventy-four people, including 57 army officers, were killed by the mutineers of the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles on Feb 25-26 in 2009.
The court of Dhaka's Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman passed the verdict on Tuesday.
The verdict has satisfied the BGB chief.
“The punishment has been exemplary. It will heal the pain suffered by the family of the victims’ and console them. The souls of the martyred will rest in peace.
“I have lost many a course-mate. This verdict has put me at peace as well.”
He said he felt no ‘sympathy’ for those convicted.
The mutiny broke out on Feb 25 morning at Peelkhana Darbar Hall when the then BDR DG Shakil Ahmed was delivering his speech at an annual function.
Two BDR personnel took to the stage at that moment and tried to hold the DG hostage, starting the bloody mutiny.
It continued for two days, with mutineers raiding residences of army officers inside Peelkhana.
It nearly sparked a confrontation between the army and the border guards as the mutineers targetted army officers holding important positions in what was then the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR).
The tense face-off finally ended when the mutineers surrendered after 33 hours.
The bloody mutiny unfolded barely a few months after the Awami League came to power, giving rise to speculations that a fresh political crisis was being engineered to destabilise an elected government.
The government controlled the mutiny with some difficulty and later re-christened the BDR as Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB).
The border guards were issued new uniforms and the formations were reorganised in a complete image makeover.
