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76-632: On 1 July 2016, Intelligence Branch Assistant Commissioner Rabiul Karim was shot dead by terrorists in the July 2016 Dhaka attack . According to Human Rights Watch , there is extensive documentation of human rights violations by the Detective Branch and the Rapid Action Battalion . According to Human Rights Watch, 70 percent of extrajudicial deaths involving the police involved the Detective Branch. In 1998, Shamim Reza Rubel ,

152-732: A 2011 extrajudicial police killing of a college student, Kazi Imtiaz Hossain Abir. [REDACTED] Media related to Detective Branch at Wikimedia Commons July 2016 Dhaka attack [REDACTED] Bangladesh Armed Forces Elections Ministries [REDACTED] On the night of 1 July 2016, at 21:20 local time, five militants took hostages and opened fire on the Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan Thana jurisdiction in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The assailants entered

228-608: A chef of the bakery was identified among the dead bodies. An injured staff of the bakery died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on 8 July 2016. Among the dead were seven Japanese citizens – five men and two women – who were associated with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). One of the women was pregnant at the time. Tarishi Jain, a 19-year-old female student of the University of California, Berkeley , of Indian nationality,

304-564: A key planner of the attack in Tangail District . In December 2018, the trial of eight people accused of being Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh who were suspected of helping plan and supply weapons for the attack opened before a special tribunal in Dhaka. In November 2019 seven were convicted and sentenced to death while one was acquitted. After revealing the investigations of the attack in July 2016 published by The Daily Star that

380-600: A kindergarten school in Shajahan Market area in Dhaka. On 6 July 2016, a video was released by IS from Syria through SITE intelligence website, where three Bengali speakers warned the Bangladeshi Government saying "What you witnessed in Bangladesh...was a glimpse. This will repeat, repeat and repeat until you lose and we win and the sharia is established throughout the world. The jihad that

456-464: A meeting in Bangladesh and visited the attack site. He then took the bodies of 9 Italian victims and carried them to their homeland in Italy. The plane carrying the bodies landed on 5 July at Ciampino Military Airbase south of Rome, Italy. Autopsy shows that all nine Italians were tortured in the attack. Several of them were slashed with knives and several of them were mutilated. Authorities confirmed that

532-638: A minimum of around 300,000 to a maximum of around 3 million. Responding to Mujib's call for rebellion, many students, workers and other civilians mutinied against Pakistan and raised the Mukti Bahini , a guerrilla force . Later on, many Bengali officers and units from the Pakistan Army and East Pakistan Rifles mutinied against their West Pakistani counterparts and joined the Mukti Bahini. On 17 April 1971, M. A. G Osmani took oath as

608-434: A population of about 170 million, is a developing country with a GDP per capita income of $ 2,221 per year. The constitution of the country declares secularism as one of the four fundamental principles of the country but also recognises Islam as the state religion. Around 89% of Bangladeshis are Muslims, with the rest being Hindus, Buddhists, Christians and others. The militant Islamic organisation Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen

684-912: A request from the United States . The deployment to Liberia began in October 2003 and has remained at a level of about 3,200 who are participating in peacekeeping, charitable activities and infrastructure development. Officers are trained and educated for three years at the Bangladesh Military Academy , Bhatiary, Bangladesh Naval Academy at Patenga, both located in Chittagong and Bangladesh Air Force Academy located in Jessore . For advance training during their career, officers are sent to Bangladesh Defence Services Command and Staff College at Mirpur, while senior officers attend

760-635: A student of the Independent University, Bangladesh , was arrested by Detective Branch members. He was then tortured and killed in custody. On 25 March 1999, a body of an informant was recovered from the water tank of Detective Branch headquarters in Minto road in Dhaka. Munshi Atiqur Rahman was made investigation officer of the case and pressed charges against four officers of the Detective Branch. The case has been in limbo since then. Assistant Commissioner of Detective Branch Motiur Rahman led

836-656: A team that detained and tortured a businessman for the purposes of extortion in 2010. The Detective Branch detained and tortured Rehana Yeasmin Dolly of the women's wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party from Wari in 2012. On 1 July 2016 Rabiul Karim, assistant commissioner of the Detective Branch Dhaka died in the July 2016 Dhaka attack trying to storm the restaurant taken over by terrorists. On 12 January 2017, 11 fake members of

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912-400: A terrorist involved in the brutal killings followed Zakir Naik 's page on Facebook and was influenced by Naik's speeches. The terrorist had posted sermons of Zakir Naik on social media where Naik urged "all Muslims to be terrorists" Indian Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju said, "Zakir Naik's speech is a matter of concern for us. Our agencies are working on this." He

988-576: A total of eight battalions of EBR were raised. Following the victory of the Awami League in the 1970 elections, then-president General Yahya Khan refused to appoint its leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the prime minister and launched a brutal attack named Operation Searchlight on the civilians of the then East Pakistan, using the Pakistan Army to repress political movements. The number of people killed by Pakistani forces vary from

1064-543: A year later, Lt. Gen. Hossain Mohammad Ershad took power from the elected government of president Abdus Sattar . The military remained the most important force in national politics under the regimes of Ziaur Rahman and later Hossain Mohammad Ershad until democracy was restored in 1991. Having relied primarily on India and the Soviet Union for military aid, Bangladesh has also developed military ties with

1140-412: Is reported that the police were directing vigilantes organised as a "citizen's committee" by the local MP for Dhaka-14, Aslamul Haque . Participants included members of the Awami League , Jubo League , and Chhatra League . On 27 August 2016, Tamim Chowdhury , the supposed mastermind of the attack, was killed in a raid on an IS safehouse in Dhaka by Bangladeshi forces. On 2 September his deputy Murad

1216-748: Is the 37th strongest in the world and the third most powerful military force in South Asia . Border Guard Bangladesh and Bangladesh Coast Guard are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Home Affairs during peacetime, but during wartime, they fall under the command of the Bangladesh Army and the Bangladesh Navy , respectively. Military policy is formulated and executed by the Armed Forces Division (AFD), whereas

1292-649: Is waged today is a jihad under the shade of the Caliphate." On 16 July 2016, Police arrested three people for renting out a flat to the attackers in Bashundhara Residential Area . One of them was Gias Uddin Ahsan, a professor of North South University . The other two were his nephew Alam Chowdhury and the manager of the building Mahbubur Rahman Tuhin. Police found sand-filled cartons, which police suspect to be used to carry grenades thrown during

1368-804: The Bangladesh Army , the Bangladesh Navy , and the Bangladesh Air Force . The Armed Forces are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defence of the Government of Bangladesh , and are directly administered by the Armed Forces Division of the Prime Minister's Office . The President of Bangladesh serves as the Commander-in-Chief of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. Bangladesh has the third-largest defence budget in South Asia . The Bangladeshi military

1444-657: The Bangladesh Nationalist Party , of plotting to destabilize the country by supporting Islamic extremists like the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen. The opposition denied such claims. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's political adviser Hossain Toufique Imam claimed that Bangladesh authorities who monitored social media saw several messages on Twitter on Friday (1 July 2016) saying there would be an attack; however, police believed that

1520-696: The Dhaka Terror Attack controversy and stated that they never blamed him for the attack. The newspaper quoted that it only reported how youth were misinterpreting his speeches. However, soon thereafter the Bangladesh Government banned the broadcast of Naik's Peace TV channel. Hasanul Haq Inu , the Information Minister, reasoned that "Peace TV is not consistent with Bangladeshi society, Bangladesh's constitution, our culture, customs and rituals". Two years after

1596-634: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) does not exercise any operational or policy authority over the Armed Forces. Since independence, the AFD and MoD have been led by the Prime Minister . To coordinate military policy with foreign and intelligence policy, both the President and the Prime Minister are advised by a six-member advisory board, which consists of the three military services' Chiefs of Staff ,

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1672-704: The National Defense University for Armed Forces War Course . Many attend the Military Institute of Science and Technology while serving. Officers of the Army Medical Corps are recruited after graduation from both military or civil medical colleges. They undergo basic military training at Bangladesh Military Academy followed by professional training in medical corps centre and Armed Forces Medical Institute. Recently cadets of Armed Forces Medical College also started joining

1748-955: The People's Republic of China and the United States . The Bangladesh Army has been actively involved in United Nations Peace Support Operations (UNPSO). During the first Gulf War in 1991, the Bangladesh Army sent a 2,193 member team to monitor peace in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait . The Bangladesh Army also participated in peace keeping activities in Namibia , Cambodia , Somalia , Uganda , Rwanda , Mozambique , former Yugoslavia , Liberia , Haiti , Tajikistan , Western Sahara , Sierra Leone , Kosovo , Georgia, East Timor , Congo , Côte d'Ivoire and Ethiopia . As of October 2008, Bangladesh remained

1824-717: The Principal Staff Officer of the Armed Forces Division, and military secretaries to the President and the Prime Minister. The directors-general of the NSI , the DGFI , and the BGB also serve in an advisory capacity when invited. Armed Forces Day is observed on 21 November and commemorates the founding of the three services of the Armed Forces, who subsequently initiated a joint military operation against

1900-563: The " Martial Races " notion was dismissed as ridiculous and humiliating by Bengalis. Moreover, despite huge defence spending, East Pakistan received none of the benefits, such as contracts, purchasing and military support jobs. The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 over Kashmir also highlighted the sense of military insecurity among Bengalis as only an under-strength infantry division and 15 combat aircraft without tank support were in East Pakistan to repel any Indian retaliations during

1976-692: The Bangladesh Forces was divided into three separate services as Bangladesh Army , Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Air Force . The Bangladesh Forces received modest assistance from the Indian Government soon after the start of the war. On 3 December 1971, the India-Pakistan war broke out and Indian troops entered Bangladesh allied with the Bangladesh Armed Forces. On 16 December 1971, the Pakistani military surrendered to

2052-569: The Bangladesh Government. It was revealed that Nibras was following a Twitter account belonged to an Islamic State propagandist named Mehdi Masroor Biswas, who was arrested in Bangalore in 2015. Two gunmen were identified as Meer Sameh Mubashir and Rohan Imtiaz. Both went to Scholastica School which follows Cambridge International Examinations curriculum. Local newspapers reported that both of them had gone missing long before

2128-581: The Bangladeshi armed forces were launched by the government of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia . Forces Goal 2030 was launched by the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to secure new equipment for the Bangladeshi military. Standoffs have occasionally occurred at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border , including in 1991 and 2008. Most of the standoffs took place, when Myanmar attempted to force Rohingyas into Bangladesh. In 2008,

2204-623: The DB men be charged under Bangladeshi laws. Superintendent of Police Harun-ur-Rashid ordered the withdrawal of three officers of the Detective Branch after they had assaulted a nurse on duty at Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Medical College Hospital . An inspector of the Detective Branch, Bahauddin Faruqui, was injured after being attacked with machetes while leading a raid in Dhaka. Mahbub Sarkar, sub-inspector of Detective Branch,

2280-531: The Detective Branch was killed in a shootout with criminals in Mirpur while on a joint raid with Mirpur Police Station in March 2018. Sub-inspector Bashir Uddin of the Detective Branch alleged that his former commanding officer Inspector Monirul Islam, and Sub-inspector Kamal Hossain had stolen drugs from a raid and made 800 thousand taka selling them. He and Cox's Bazar's Officer-in-Charge alleged they were threatened by

2356-638: The Dhaka Metropolitan Police, and Salahuddin Ahmed, officer-in-charge of the nearby Banani police station. Nine Italian citizens were among the victims. The Bangladesh Army initially announced that all 20 hostages killed in the attack were foreigners, and that they were "killed brutally with sharp weapons" by the perpetrators. Those who could recite a verse from the Quran from memory were spared in an effort to only kill non-Muslims . Later

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2432-534: The ISIL magazine Dabiq published an article calling for the "revival of jihad in Bengal ". Gulshan is a well off, upscale residential neighbourhood of Dhaka and is home to many foreign embassies. The attack started at about 21:40 local time. Five attackers entered the restaurant armed with bombs, pistols, and assault rifles. One attacker also had a sword. They opened fire indiscriminately and detonated several of

2508-453: The Japan's Ambassador to Bangladesh, Masato Watanabe. The bodies of the seven Japanese victims were flown to Tokyo on 5 July. The plane took off from Shahjalal International Airport at 8:40 pm local Bangladesh time. Survivors recalled that the attackers had no mercy to the foreigners. One of the survivors stated that an Indian woman, identified as Tarishi Jain, who had been badly injured

2584-575: The Pakistani armed forces or had been detained in West Pakistan . A group of angered officers assassinated the president Sheikh Mujib on 15 August 1975 and established a regime with politician Khondaker Mostaq Ahmed as President of Bangladesh and new army chief Maj. Gen. Ziaur Rahman . The military itself was subject of divisions as Mujib's assassins were overthrown by the pro-Mujib Brig. Gen. Khaled Mosharraf on 3 November, who himself

2660-584: The attack and used clothes in the flat. Police also suspect that the attackers and their associates stayed in the flat during Ramadan , and the attack plan was drafted there. On 26 July 2016, police raided an apartment in Kallyanpur chasing 10 suspects, all of whom are believed to be part of the same group that carried out the Holey Artisan Bakery attack, and who were planning another large-scale attack; they killed nine and arrested one. It

2736-421: The attack would target embassies or major hotels and restaurants instead. The attackers, all in their late teens or early 20s, were identified as wealthy men from Bangladesh's elite, having attended top private schools and universities in Bangladesh and abroad. It was revealed that three of the attackers came from a privileged background, educated with western curricula. Police named the five gunmen who attacked

2812-555: The attack, a memorial sculpture named "Dipto Shopoth" by Mrinal Haque was inaugurated in Gulshan in memory of the two policemen AC Rabiul and OC Salahuddin who were killed in the incident. After the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the sculpture was demolished on 29 August and replaced with posters of the banned Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh . 2019 Bangladeshi-German-Russian co-production film Shonibar Bikel and 2022 Indian film Faraaz are based on

2888-461: The attack. Rohan Imtiaz has been identified as the son of a politician in Bangladesh's ruling party Awami League . Police then identified another gunman, named as Shafiqul Islam Ujjal from Koiyagarhi village, Bogra District . He enrolled at Government Azizul Haque College in Bogra for graduation after passing higher secondary examinations. He had left the college later and took up a teaching job at

2964-675: The attackers were Bangladeshi citizens. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident and released photographs of the gunmen, but the Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan , stated that the perpetrators belonged to Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen and were not affiliated with ISIL. The incident was described by BBC News as the "deadliest Islamist attack in Bangladeshi history ." The local media described it as 7/16 . Bangladesh, having

3040-657: The attackers were killed exchanging fire with the commandos, while the sixth was captured alive. During the operation one of the bakery's chefs was mistakenly identified as an attacker by the commandos and shot dead. Two of the hostages, Tahmid Hasib Khan and Hasnat Karim, were taken by police for questioning, and subsequently vanished amidst confusion about whether they had been released or not. Twenty-two civilians, five terrorists, and two police officers were confirmed killed, while 50 others, mostly police personnel, were injured. The two dead police officers included Rabiul Islam, Assistant Commissioner of Detective Branch of

3116-402: The attackers, standing in front of ISIL banners . According to The New York Times , citing Bangladesh police, the attackers were named Akash, Badhon, Bikash, Don, and Ripon. ISIL referred to the five men by their kunya which were Abu Omar al-Bengali, Abu Salmah al-Bengali, Abu Rahim al-Bengali, Abu Muslim al-Bengali and Abu Muharib al-Bengali. According to The New York Times , pictures of

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3192-429: The attackers; they offered a young Bangladeshi man, Faraaz Hossain , the opportunity to leave as well. However, Hossain refused their offer and refused to leave his friends, who were prohibited from leaving by the gunmen. Pictures allegedly taken from inside the restaurant were circulated on Twitter by pro-ISIL accounts and show several bodies and pools of blood on the floor. The daily Kaler Kantho reported that

3268-634: The bakery and securing the hostages, they set up a perimeter along with the Rapid Action Battalion and Border Guard Bangladesh . Very early on 2 July (around 03:00), it was decided that the Bangladesh Armed Forces would launch a counter-assault named Operation Thunderbolt . The assault was led by the 1st Para-commando Battalion , an elite force in the Bangladesh Army under the leadership of operational commander Brigadier General Mujibur Rahman , and began their raid at 07:40. According to Bangladesh's Inspector General of Police , all of

3344-439: The bakery with crude bombs, machetes, pistols, and took several dozen hostages (foreigners and locals). In the immediate response, while Dhaka Metropolitan Police tried to regain control of the bakery, two police officers were shot dead by the assailants. 29 people were killed, including 20 hostages (17 foreigners and 3 locals), two police officers, five gunmen, and two bakery staff. As the police were unsuccessful in breaching

3420-411: The bodies of the five men, released by Bangladeshi police, matched five photographs of the men released by ISIL. Nevertheless, the home minister of Bangladesh, Asaduzzaman Khan, stated that the perpetrators belonged to Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen and were not affiliated with ISIL. They were well-educated and mostly from rich families. Bangladeshi politicians also blamed opposition groups, like those within

3496-405: The bombs. Several patrons dove under their tables, while panicked staff members ran onto the stairs. An Argentinian-Italian chef named Diego Rossini bolted upstairs, while several restaurant employees followed him. They then jumped onto the rooftops of nearby buildings. Staff on the second floor ran and hid inside a restroom. A total of 8 staff members were hiding inside the restroom. The restroom

3572-670: The branch were arrested in Sabujbagh , Dhaka by the Detective Branch. In March 2015, seven Detective Branch members entered a border village in Tripura , India while chasing a criminal in Comilla near the Bangladesh-India border . They were surrounded by the villagers, while three detective members escaped four were detained by Indian Border Security Force . They were handed over to Border Guards Bangladesh and BSF asked that

3648-537: The commander-in-chief of Mukti Bahini. While the war raged on, the necessity of a well-trained armed force was always felt. During the first Bangladesh Sector Commanders Conference, held from 11 to 17 July 1971, the Bangladesh Forces started its journey composed of the revolting Bengali members of the Pakistan Army and EPR . In this historic conference the field command structure, sector reorganization, reinforcement, appointment of field commanders and tactics of warfare were decided upon and carried out. On 21 November 1971,

3724-404: The conflict. The East Bengal Regiment was formed on 15 February 1948 following Pakistan's independence and transition from post British rule, composed exclusively of men from the western part of the country. The first East Bengal Regiment was composed of Bengali members of the British Indian Army Pioneer Corps and Bihar Regiment of the abolished British-Indian army . Between 1948 and 1965,

3800-415: The duo. A sub-inspector of the Detective Branch, Syed Md Rashedul Alam, was detained for a robbery in Dhaka in December 2019. Detective Branch officials detained and tortured Mohammad Abdul Kaium, a journalist, in Mymensingh. In August 2021, six members of the Detective Branch were detained for robbing a gold businessman of 20 gold bar worth 12.4 million taka. Harun-ur-Rashid , a controversial policeman,

3876-412: The event. The latter is an adaptation of Nuruzzaman Labu's 2017 non-fiction book Holey Artisan: A Journalistic Investigation . Bangladesh Armed Forces The Bangladesh Armed Forces ( Bengali : বাংলাদেশ সশস্ত্র বাহিনী , romanized :  Bāṅlādēś Sôśôstrô Bāhinī ) are the military forces of the People's Republic of Bangladesh . They consist of the three uniformed military services:

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3952-447: The gunman told Miraj: "Everyone else ran away but you couldn't make it, that means God wants you to die." The gunman then strapped him to a chair with explosives, creating their human shield. The gunmen then separated the Muslims from the non-Muslims. The Muslims were given food and water, while the non-Muslims, were not. On the early morning of 2 July, the attackers began releasing hostages. A group of women wearing hijabs were released by

4028-412: The joint Indian and Bangladesh forces. The newly formed Bangladeshi armed forces incorporated some of the units and guerrillas of the Mukti Bahini. Gen. Osmani, who had led the Mukti Bahini was appointed the General of the Bangladesh armed forces . For many years, there was active discrimination in favour of the inductees from the Mukti Bahini against those Bengali officers who had continued service in

4104-575: The leader of the terrorist group was sentenced to death on 23 December 2008. Since 2013, Muslim-majority Bangladesh has experienced an increase in Islamist attacks on religious minorities, secularist and atheist writers and bloggers, LGBT rights activists and liberal-minded Muslims. Since September 2015, there have been over 30 such attacks, and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for 21 of them. Ansarullah Bangla Team , another terrorist group outlawed on 25 May 2015, also claimed responsibility for some of them. In November 2015,

4180-460: The militant group Ansar al-Islam announced the upcoming attack via a tweet almost 10 hours before the actual attack took place. The rescue operation was ordered by the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and was named Operation Thunderbolt . The planning of the Operation was finalized at a meeting between the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Armed forces chiefs and top officials of different law enforcement agencies. The operation

4256-407: The militants in an attempt to rescue civilians from the site. 9 people were brought back from the site in the attempt. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was briefed by the Commissioner and she instructed him to move away with his men and informed him the Army Chief Belal Shafiul Huq was on his way from Sylhet. The attackers then spotted one member of staff, named Miraj, who hid in the corner. One of

4332-404: The nine Italian victims suffered "slow and agonizing death". Relatives of the seven Japanese victims in the attack were flown to Bangladesh to view and identify the bodies, accompanied by Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiji Kihara, Foreign Ministry and the Japan International Cooperation Agency. A ceremony for the repatriation of the bodies were held at a stadium in Dhaka, which was attended by

4408-405: The occupying Pakistani Armed Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War . Official functions are held across the country, including at Bangabhaban , the Armed Forces Division Headquarters at Dhaka Cantonment , all military cantonments, and at every military installation throughout Bangladesh. With the partitioning of India on August 15, 1947, the territory constituting modern Bangladesh

4484-399: The restaurant as Nibras Islam, Rohan Imtiaz, Meer Saameh Mubasheer, Khairul Islam and Shafiqul Islam. One of them Nibras Islam was known as a "fun-loving, in and out of love, and keen on sport". He attended Monash University in Malaysia and returned because "he didn't like it in Monash". Nibras' father was a businessman with two houses in Dhaka, and one of his uncles was a Deputy Secretary to

4560-430: The restroom and pleaded for help. The attackers then took many hostages, almost all foreigners. Reports indicate that the attackers were "unfailingly polite and solicitous" with the restaurant staff and other Bangladeshis. They took the staff into their confidence, complaining that foreigners, with their skimpy clothes and taste for alcohol, were impeding the spread of Islam. "Their lifestyle is encouraging local people to do

4636-525: The same thing," a militant said. Alerted by the gunfire, police detective Rabiul Karim and officer-in-charge Salauddin Khan started to investigate. Other police officers responded, arriving at the restaurant. The attackers then engaged in a shootout with the police. Police cordoned off the area around the restaurant and planned a rescue raid. The attackers however threw grenades and fired, killing officers Karim and Khan. DMP Commissioner, Asaduzzaman Mia , and several officers struck inside and opened fire on

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4712-461: The second largest contributor with 9,800 troops in the UN Peacekeeping forces. Until a peace accord was signed in 1997, the Bangladeshi military engaged in counterinsurgency operations in the Chittagong Hill Tracts fighting the Shanti Bahini separatist group. In 2001, Bangladeshi military units engaged in clashes with the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the northern border. Several projects and schemes aiming to expand and modernize

4788-492: The services directly. Bangladeshi military ranks, essentially corresponds to those used by the armed forces of the commonwealth nations. The rank insignia for commissioned officers for the Armed forces respectively. Dhaka Cantonment Artillery Centre and School, Halishahar, Chittagong. Cantonments are where Bangladesh Army personnel work, train, and live. Bangladesh has made a long term modernisation plan for its Armed Forces named Forces Goal 2030 . The plan includes

4864-774: The two countries deployed warships after Myanmar attempted to explore a disputed Bay of Bengal seabed for oil and gas. The dispute was resolved at an international tribunal in 2012. Bangladesh and Myanmar have also conducted counter-insurgency operations on the border. The following are the various gallantry, service and war medals of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. Bangladesh has consistently made large contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations. As of May 2007, Bangladesh had major deployments in Democratic Republic of Congo , Liberia , Lebanon , Sudan , Timor-Leste and Côte d'Ivoire . With 10,736 troops deployed, it ranks first in personnel contributions to UN peacekeeping. The government declined to participate in Iraq on

4940-426: The wall. A man, living next to the restaurant, took a video of the operation and tweeted it on internet. Within 12 to 13 minutes, they took control over the area. The rescue operation lasted around 50 minutes. Bangladesh Army chief General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq and Bangladesh Navy chief Admiral Mohammad Nizamuddin Ahmed were present in the area during the raid. Thirteen hostages were rescued. Five of

5016-497: Was partitioned from the province of Bengal as East Bengal , joining the newly created state of Pakistan . Ethnic and sectional discrimination prevailed in all sectors of the state. Like other government sectors, Bengalis were under-represented in the Pakistani military too. Officers of Bengali origin in the different wings of the armed forces made up just 5% of overall force by 1965. West Pakistanis believed that Bengalis were not "martially inclined" unlike Pashtuns and Punjabis ;

5092-473: Was also killed. The dead included: The five terrorists who died during rescue operation by military and joint forces are: Among the injured were 25 police personnel. Among them were several higher-ranking officers of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police including an Additional Commissioner, two Additional Deputy Commissioners, the Officer-in-charge of the Gulshan police station and an Inspector. The Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Mario Giro had attended

5168-458: Was appointed head of the Detective Branch of DMP on 13 July 2022. In September 2022, Detective Branch members of Dhaka District north tortured several members of a Hindu family, including a 14-year-old, in Dhamrai when to go to file a robbery case at the police station. They identified the torturers as Inspector Yasin Munshi, Inspector Kamal Hossain, Inspector Kamal Hossain and two unidentified officers. Inspector Yasin Munshi had been involved in

5244-448: Was founded in 1998 and outlawed in 2005 when it committed a series of bombings , but later took up activities again. Bangladesh government later tried and hanged Shaykh Abdur Rahman and Siddiqur Rahman , two leaders of the organisation. Some attacks came from another Islamic terrorist group outlawed in 2005 named Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami , including the 2004 Dhaka grenade attack and 2001 Ramna Batamul bombings . Mufti Hannan ,

5320-455: Was killed in another raid in Dhaka's Rupnagar area. On 6 January 2017, Bangladeshi police shot dead two Islamist militants including Nurul Islam Marjan, a commander of a splinter group of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) which is the prime suspect and was on a police wanted list for his role in the attack since July 2016. On the night of 13 January 2017, Bangladeshi counterterrorism forces arrested Jahangir Alam, man suspected of being

5396-445: Was led by 1st Para-Commando Battalion under the leadership of Operational Commander Brigadier General Mujibur Rahman of the Bangladesh Army's 46 Independent Infantry Brigade . Members of the Bangladesh Army, Navy , Air Force , Border Guard Bangladesh , Police , Rapid Action Battalion , and SWAT started the rescue operation at 07:40 local time. Commandos stormed into the bakery with nine APCs acting in support, smashing through

5472-467: Was moaning in agony but a perpetrator took a sword to her and killed her without mercy. An initial report from Amaq News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, said the group claimed it had killed 24 people and wounded 40 others. A second report, issued directly by ISIL a few hours later, said the group had killed "22 crusaders" and was accompanied by photos of

5548-710: Was shot in April 2016 during a police raid in Tatibazar, Dhaka. The Detective Branch arrested six in Khulna with tiger skins. The Detective Branch detained four Nigerians on fraud and human trafficking charges. Seven members of the Detective Branch were detained in October 2017 with ransom money after they had kidnapped a businessman in Tekhnaf at a Bangladesh Army check post. In September 2022, those officers were sentenced to seven years imprisonment. Inspector Md Jalal Uddin of

5624-485: Was soon overthrown by a socialist group of officers under Col. Abu Taher on 7 November who returned Ziaur Rahman to power—an event now called the Sipoy-Janata Biplob ( Soldiers and People's Coup ). Under the presidency of Ziaur Rahman, the military was reorganised to remove conflicts between rival factions and discontented cadre. However, Ziaur Rahman was himself overthrown in a 1981 coup attempt , and

5700-607: Was then termed a controversial as well as a popular figure by the media. After 2 days in investigation, the Maharashtra State Intelligence Department (SID) gave a clean chit to Zakir Naik and said that Naik would not and cannot be arrested on his return to India as the probe ordered by the Maharashtra government did not find any other strong evidence to link Naik to terror-related activities. The Daily Star apologized to Naik over

5776-412: Was warm and cramped, as it was storing yeast and flour. The attackers then went upstairs and walked in front of the door, shouting "Bengali people, come out," "If you're Muslims, come out." Because there was no answer, the gunmen thought that there was no one inside the restroom, and locked the restroom's door. The staff members inside the restroom began to text their relatives, stating that they were inside

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