Bangladesh Army
Land warfare branch and the largest component of the Bangladesh Armed Forces.
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Ziaur Rahman
Ziaur Rahman (19 January 1936 – 30 May 1981) was a Bangladesh Army officer and later turned politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 1977 to 1981.
Bangladesh Armed Forces
The Bangladesh Armed Forces (বাংলাদেশ সশস্ত্র বাহিনী) are the combined military forces of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh Armed Forces (বাংলাদেশ সশস্ত্র বাহিনী) are the combined military forces of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
It consists of the three uniformed military services: the Bangladesh Army, the Bangladesh Navy and the Bangladesh Air Force.
Sheikh Hasina
Bangladeshi politician who has been serving as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh since January 2009.
Bangladeshi politician who has been serving as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh since January 2009.
Hasina was not in Bangladesh when her father, and most of her family, were assassinated on 15 August 1975 during a military coup d'état by renegade officers of the Bangladesh Army.
East Bengal Regiment
The East Bengal Regiment (ইস্ট বেঙ্গল রেজিমেন্ট) is an infantry regiment and the largest military formation of the Bangladesh Army.
M. A. G. Osmani
Bengali military leader.
Bengali military leader.
Regarded as the founder of the Bangladesh Armed Forces, Osmani retired as a four-star general from the Bangladesh Army in 1972.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Bangladeshi politician, statesman and Founding Father of Bangladesh who served as the first President and later as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from April 1971 until his assassination in August 1975.
Bangladeshi politician, statesman and Founding Father of Bangladesh who served as the first President and later as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from April 1971 until his assassination in August 1975.
The Mukti Bahini and other militias amalgamated to form a new Bangladesh Army to which Indian forces transferred control on 17 March.
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad
Bangladeshi politician.
Bangladeshi politician.
Sheikh Mujib and all members of his family, except his daughters, who were in West Germany at the time, were assassinated by a group of army personnel on 15 August.
Hussain Muhammad Ershad
Bangladeshi Army Chief and politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990, a time many consider to have been a military dictatorship.
Bangladeshi Army Chief and politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990, a time many consider to have been a military dictatorship.
After his return, Ershad was appointed Adjutant General of the Bangladesh Army by President of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first president of independent Bangladesh.
Operation Searchlight
The codename for a planned military operation carried out by the Pakistan Army in an effort to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in former East Pakistan in March 1971.
The codename for a planned military operation carried out by the Pakistan Army in an effort to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in former East Pakistan in March 1971.
Major C.R Dutta (Frontier Force – on leave) was at Habiganj on 25 March and with the aid of Lt. Col. (ret) M.A. Rab (M.N.A 70 and future COS Bangladesh Army) had gathered a mixed force of EPR, police and volunteers totalling 2 companies by 27 March.
Sylhet
Metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh.
Metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh Army's 17th Infantry Division is based at Jalalabad Cantonment in Sylhet.